Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General's advice. Come to flay his old chief's plan, onetime No. 1 Brain Truster Raymond Moley next day cried, "The institutions of democracy grow and strengthen only through their use. Let us make democracy work by working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend and amend than pack and pack and pack." There were already plenty of people who would rather amend the Constitution than accept the President's Plan-if they could only agree on an amendment, and Pundit Moley offered no solution of their problem. Neither did Princeton...
...Monroe County Penitentiary. Legality of Judge Gitelman's experiment was questioned, however, because Section 2188 of New York Law says "once a sentence starts it must not be interrupted." To remove this obstacle to interrupted jail terms, last year bills were introduced in the Legislature to amend the law, but Governor Herbert Lehman vetoed them on the ground that the weekend sentence idea had not been tried out enough for State-wide adoption. He suggested legislation be passed applicable only to Rochester...
...amend the Constitution giving the Federal Government power to regulate labor, agriculture and industry-or whatever may be necessary to achieve the New Deal's aims, Senator Ashurst, before his switch to the President's plan, belonged to this school of thought. Its devotees last week were not much heard from, for it is generally admitted that any amendment which would grant such power would completely destroy state rights, would virtually give Congress power to do anything...
...make it easier to amend the Constitution. Last week Senators Wheeler and Bone proposed a Constitutional amendment, providing that if the Supreme Court declared a Federal law unconstitutional, Congress should have the power after the next general election to repass the law over the Supreme Court's "veto" by a two-thirds vote. Technically this would not provide a new means of amending the Constitution, but practically it would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected...
...popped Regent Grady to amend this narrative. Said he: "Why, Harold, my first inkling of the purpose of the meeting was when the Governor stated: 'I believe the University is slipping and that there is a serious question of whether Dr. Frank should be retained...