Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardest working member of the Supreme Court, going to his office at 7 a. m. and often continuing into the night. His theory is that a search for the truth, if carried far enough, will always obliterate any conflict of opinion. His words are few-almost epigrammatic: "Instead of amending the Constitution, I would amend men's economic and social ideas...
...Deputies arose refreshed, complacent, found themselves even provided with a special bar outside their meeting hall where viands and vintages of every sort were dispensed at prices far from high. M. Poincaré had not been extravagant in his preparations. He was about to ask the National Assembly to amend the Constitution -a grave step for Frenchmen, whose Constitution had sustained but two amendments since it was promulgated at Versailles in 1875. M. Poincaré would shortly demand that the internal debt of France be irrevocably guaranteed by making constitutional the recently passed legislation (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.) creating...
Since the enacted extraparliamentary administration of the fund by an impartial committee was deemed unconstitutional last week, Premier Poincaré arranged with President Doumergue for the immediate convocation of the National Assembly (Chamber and Senate sitting together) at Versailles, to amend the Constitution...
Significance. Plain as a pikestaff loomed Pilsudski's chagrin at not obtaining a three-fifths parliamentary majority-either at his own election or Moscicki's-wherewith to amend radically the Constitution, increase vastly the executive power, and institute the broad program of reforms which he envisioned at the time of his coup...
...Clerk read the title of the bill ("H. R. 10772, a bill to amend the World War Veterans' Act of 1924"). Mrs. Rogers rose...