Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first point, the verbal struggle was keen. Dr. G. A. Huntley of the Chinese mission field asserted that 49 out of 50 missionaries in China would resign rather than submit to being catechized as to their faith. Dr. Meigs of Illinois, on behalf of the Modernists, proposed to amend the resolution by striking out the insistence on the creed, leaving the statement that the New Testament is the basis of the Baptist faith. The cohorts were summoned to vote. The Modernists polled 742 to the Fundamentalists 574. So the resolution was shorn of its point-and adopted...
...been the occasion for the interference of University authorities. But the dean's office, holding to its traditional liberal policy, has issued no hasty ultimatum and offered no blustering excuses. The faculty individually communicated their staunch support to the maltreated Lampoon, and respected the right of the Advocate to amend its own faults...
...equerries, Cabinet Ministers, officers, stands up to read the speech, previously written for him by the Prime Minister. The most important points made last week: 1) That an attempt would be made to obtain Parliamentary sanction for the calling of a Conference between Provincial and Federal governments to amend the British North America Act "with respect to the execution and powers of the Senate and other important particulars." 2) That the desirability of equalizing the railway freight rates will be inquired into. 3) That important ports on the St. Lawrence River and on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards...
...easier to talk about Senate Reform than to accomplish it, as no less a Canadian statesman than Sir Wilfred Laurier found out. The House of Commons can initiate and pass a bill; of that there is no doubt. The bill would necessarily take the form of an amendment to the British North America Act (the Canadian Constitution)� and that requires?irrespective of whether the bill were passed over the heads of the venerable Senators, which is impossible?an address from both Houses of the Canadian Parliament requesting the Mother Parliament at Westminster to amend the Act. Thus it becomes...
First, the bill was amended by substituting 4) the Jones plan for the Underwood plan. Second, it was amended by substituting 2) the Norris plan for the Jones plan. Third, it was amended by substituting 3) the Underwood plan for the Norris plan. Then an attempt was made again to amend the bill toy substituting 4) the Jones plan for the Underwood plan. This last attempt failed. Finally, the bill (composed of 3)-the Underwood plan-was passed by vote...