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...nothing much was done about it. At least not until the members of the Warren Commission became outraged by the prejudicial newspaper coverage, on a nation-wide scale, of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused as the assassin of President Kennedy. By December of 1964, the American Bar Association (ABA) had organized a special committee to do something about...
...previously urged tax increases to battle inflation, told a meeting of the American Bankers Association that he could well under stand why the President had held off on a tax hike until "he knows where we are going in Viet Nam." In a fascinating sideshow to the ABA sessions in Spain, Martin's Federal Reserve colleague, Board Member J. Dewey Daane, appeared in a Toledo ring and made four respectable passes with a scarlet and yellow cape at a "bull." Actually, the beast was a heifer, but the bankers wildly cheered the performance-not least because...
...ABA Commission on Electoral College Reform, of which Freund was a member, recommended Sunday that the president and vice-president, running as a team, be elected by national popular vote with a minimum of 40 per cent required for election. If no candidate received 40 per cent, a national runoff election would be held...
...proposal receives the expected approval from the full ABA House of Delegates at its February meeting, the ABA may institute local and national groups to press for its adoption as a constitutional amendment...
...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...