Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first official act, new A.B.A. President Rosser Lynn Malone Jr., 47, a lawyer from Roswell, N. Mex. who helped clean up the Justice Department in President Truman's closing days in office, made it clear that he would carry on where Charles Rhyne left off. As a first step, Ross Malone set up a series of regional conferences as a "pilot project for a world conference of lawyers" dedicated to peace through...
Penance Underground. The custom gained added impetus from the preaching of the Franciscan missionaries, who strongly emphasized the sufferings of Christ's passion in their teachings, and permitted the practice of self-scourging as an act of devotion. When the Franciscans were withdrawn at the close of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, and the visits of priests to the villages grew increasingly rare, a group of Catholic laymen called Penitentes gradually emerged. Its members conducted services, taught doctrine, visited the sick and buried the dead-in effect performing all the priestly functions except saying Mass...
...million bill for federal aid to education passed last week is a sweeping reaffirmation of a principle well established by the Morrill Act of 1862, which set up financing for the nation's land-grant colleges, stated again in many lesser measures that followed, and restated in the vast G.I. Bill of 1944. The new measure is a compromise that provides for student loans but no undergraduate scholarships, although Alabama's Senator Lister Hill had asked for 40,000 scholarships, Alabama's Representative Carl Elliott 23,000 and President Eisenhower 10,000. But its passage...
RENEGOTIATION ACT, which is opposed by many defense contractors (TIME, July 14), has been extended for six months. U.S. Senate knocked out clause permitting appeals from final Tax Court rulings, but pressure from industry is so strong that the bill stands good chance of being liberalized next year...
...navy and in Parliament (he cozened the Scottish voters by dancing Highland reels and, on one occasion, importing 15 beautiful maidens of the Clan Macleod for a party), truculent Lord George Gordon became president of the Protestant Association. Gordon was a furious enemy of the Catholic Relief Act, passed in 1778 to ease the lot of English Catholics. One June day in 1780 the association met in St. George's Fields, 50,000 strong. After a speech by Gordon, they marched eight abreast to Parliament to demand repeal of the Relief Act, and an onlooker noted that they...