Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herr von Papen then served notice that his Cabinet proposes to revise the German constitution. Berlin rumor said that the word "republic" will be omitted. Conceivably the von Papen Cabinet, acting by presidential decree, could so alter the fundamental law of Germany as to prevent the Hitlerites, who won 14,000,000 votes in the last Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8), from scoring further gains. Said Satevepost correspondent Isaac Marcos-son, returning from Germany last week: "Chancellor von Papen will disenfranchise 50% of Adolf Hitler's followers if he raises the voting age, as he may, to 25 years...
Early this year the Great Eight publishers elected to alter the Graphic because it resembled Sphere too closely. At the same time Editor William Comyns Beaumont of Bystander was considering quitting the Great Eight group to start a weekly of his own, an illustrated smartchart something like the New Yorker, to be named either The Londoner or St. James's. Instead the publishers let Editor Beaumont take charge of the Graphic, replacing Editor Alan John Bott...
...situation rests on a foundation far broader than mere statecraft. Pressure upon the U. S. (if it is exerted); scurvy tricks (if they are played at the World Economic Conference); the refusal of the U. S. Congress to cancel another cent (if it refuses)?none of these things alter what are probably the paramount facts: 11 that the U. S. will not fight to collect from the Allies; 2) that the Allies will pay the U. S. proportionately no more than they receive from Germany*; 3) that the German people believe they cannot pay and are determined that they...
...Management Methods, the heavy review rank held until last week, when Review of Reviews swallowed Doubleday-Doran's World's Work. Beginning with the August issue, Review of Reviews will carry the name of World's Work with its own on the cover but will not alter editorial content...
...majority report from the Committee, this plank pledged the party to law enforcement and against nullification. It next detailed the workings of Article V whereby proposals to alter the Constitution are submitted by a two-thirds vote of Congress, or on application of two-thirds of the State Legislatures and are ratified by three-fourths of the State Legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the States. Turning thumbs down on referendums as meaningless and ineffectual, the majority plank continued...