Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine town-meeting weather. The roads were passable. Spring was on its way. The good citizens of New Hampshire met, as they have every spring for 150 years or more, to elect the township officers, approve or amend the budgets, define the general policy of 224 towns for the coming year. It was the purest and the oldest manifestation of democracy...
...proposals to amend the U.S. Constitution were bottled up for the duration by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The Senators explained that they were mindful of the resentment over the adoption of Prohibition while World War I servicemen were overseas. But what seemed more to the point was that they had just tabled the Fulbright resolution. Arkansas' internationalist Senator Fulbright decided something should be done about the Constitutional provision which allows one-third-plus-one of the Senate to block a treaty. His resolution proposed that treaties be ratified by a simple majority in House and Senate...
...bill proposes to amend the Naval Reserve Act of 1925 so as to increase the total personnel of the NROTC from 7,200 to 24,000 until one year after cessation of hostilities, at which time the number will be gradually decreased...
...great loan funds safely out of Wallace's control, had been turned by pro-Wallace Senators into a bill which would make Henry Wallace acceptable to the Senate as Commerce Secretary. Now, if the anti-Wallaceites in the House could tie the bill up in committee (or amend or reject it, thereby returning it to the Senate), the Senate might have to vote on confirming Wallace as both Commerce Secretary and loan administrator. Then, for the first time since the Coolidge Administration, the Senate might refuse to confirm a Cabinet appointment...
...walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...