Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amend the Interstate Commerce Act to make it more efficient...
...deliberate sinking of the ship had been justified neither by treaty nor international law. Therefore the U. S. Government should pay the ship's captain & crew sums totaling $25,666.50. To the Canadian Government it should deliver a confession of guilt, an apology, and, "as a material amend in respect of the wrong...
...should not be compelled either to sustain or dismiss Mrs. Vanderbilt's writ of habeas corpus, thus opening the way for an appeal. Growled Justice Carew: "I'm not interested. The order I signed is all right as it is. [But] if they want me to amend it, I shall amend it." Counsel for both sides agreed that Justice Carew would probably dismiss Mrs. Vanderbilt's writ, thus giving sole possession of the child to Mrs. Whitney. Meantime at Old Westbury small Gloria Vanderbilt, threatened with harm in a letter signed "Catholic Communist," pursued her daily rounds...
With only the nation behind him, Great Little Gaston pushed on against the politicians. This week he will ask Chamber and Senate to go to Versailles and there in joint session as the National Assembly amend the Constitution to: 1) raise the Premier who is now primus inter pares ("first among equals") to explicit leadership of his Ministers; 2) empower the President, one year or more after election of the Chamber, to dissolve it without the consent of the Senate; 3) empower the Government to punish strikes within the career ranks of French civil servants by dismissal; 4) provide that...
...buys, these Governments need only seize and collect payments which their citizens would otherwise make to Germany. In a stiff speech to the House of Commons hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain explicitly threatened to do this, but gave Germany July 1 to mend her ways, amend her moratorium. Since the U. S. sells to Germany more than she buys, Washington statesmen could not take the drastic steps threatened in London and Paris, but the U. S. Embassy in Berlin was ordered to make ''vigorous protest...