Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debaters. Feeling in Congress ran high over the measure. Representative Burton,* of Ohio, was the only Administration spokesman to denounce the Japanese exclusion feature of the bill. Representatives Dickstein, Jacobstein, La Guardia, Sabath and Rosenbloom - whose names are indicative of their disinterestedness - made desperate last-minute efforts to amend the measure to modify the quota basis so as to favor the Italian, Jewish and eastern European stocks. The debate ended with winged words from Representative Tincher of Kansas: "The issue" is fairly well drawn. On the one side- is beer, Bolshevism, unassimiating settlements, and many flags. On the other side...
SECTION II: Church doctrine is determined by the General Assembly and the presbyteries. Therefore, the General Assembly of 1923, by declaring certain doctrines to be "essential," was attempting to amend the Constitution of the Church in an unconstitutional manner...
...last night's meeting the members of the Hasty Pudding Club and the Institute of 1770 voted almost solidly for the combination of the two clubs. The two-thirds' vote required to amend the Pudding constitution was readily obtained from the Hasty Pudding members, while the members of the Institute voted confidence in their Executive Council, which was delegated to amend the constitution of the Institute...
French bishops who have power to amend history-books to their taste...
These two gentlemen with their "regular" Republican supporters can kill radical tax measures in committee. But once they send out on the floors of the Senate and House bills of the Administration, the radicals and Democrats can amend and alter them to their hearts' content. The result would be bad for the Republican Party and unsettling to business. "For expediency's sake,," say Messrs. Smoot and Green, " we ought not to try to do what we ought...