Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verge of brightening over Boston, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to be relieved of its present position as the butt of literary circles throughout the world. The bill has been reported favorably to the State Legislature to amend the law relative to obscene literature, which, as it now stands, has been responsible for the banning of about fifty books in the past year. The new measure would entirely eliminate books from jurisdiction under this law, and a book would be judged by its context as a whole rather than by a single phrase or paragraph...
...parks contain a total of 92,000 acres of private land, valued at $5,810,261. Senator Walsh and his colleague, Senator Wheeler, persuaded the Senate to amend the appropriation bill so as to prevent wholesale condemnation of these lands without discrimination between commercial projects and private dwellings. The House resented the change, declined to accept it in conference...
...between Radio Corp. of America Communications, Inc., and the Western Union Telegraph Co. is the White Act, Federal law forbidding the merger of wire and radio companies. It is believed, however, that Radio and Western Union will soon conclude an operating agreement. Later an effort will be made to amend the White Act to permit a merger...
...would not spend the rest of her life as Convict No. 1289. Michi gan's Governor Fred W. Green has already expressed the opinion that the "habitual criminal" act is somewhat drastic in its application to liquor law offenses. It is also thought that the Michigan Legislature will amend the state prohibition laws to give such offenders as Mrs. Miller a loop hole from the "habitual criminal" penalty. If such a crime as Mrs. Miller's, for in stance, were classed as a misdemeanor rather than a felony, it would not come under the "habitual" act. The Michigan...
...complete was the deadlock among factions that all possibility of obtaining a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution in favor of a third term for President Hainisch quickly vanished. Preliminary balloting showed that the 91 Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting...