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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention was arrested by the startling similarity of your first "conviction" to some words of Cicero found in his De Re Publica, III, 33. TIME says, "That God's order . . . includes a moral code . . . not subject to man's repeal, suspension or amendment." Cicero said, "There is indeed a true law . . . unchanging, everlasting ... It is not allowable to repeal, amend or suspend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Time & again, 20th century Britons have tried to amend or abolish the Quiet Sunday Laws, only to find themselves up against a coalition of fond tradition and the Lord's Day Observance Society, a body which is resolutely led by 71-year-old Herbert Henry Martin, known all over Britain as "Misery" Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Quiet Sunday | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

City Councillor Edward J. Sullivan lashed out at Harvard "jaywalkers" yesterday and put through the council a unanimous motion to amend traffic laws in the Square. The motion was passed on to the City Traffic Board for further study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Attacks 'Jay - Walkers' at Council Meeting | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

...phrases? It is not the lower order of the.genus pol, but it is the fault of you the people. Your public servants serve you right. Indeed, often they serve you better than your apathy and your indifference deserve, but I suggest that there is always time to repent and amend your ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whose Adlai? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...closing move the Young Democrats voted also to amend the constitution so that it will specify that no member can vote at meetings who has not paid his dues ten days in advance...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Young Democrats Split; Currey Leads Mavericks | 10/9/1952 | See Source »

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