Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change of Prices. There is a big loophole in the new law: mail-order houses do not have to observe minimum prices in interstate shipment. So Fair Traders started a new drive to amend the law to bring them into line. Prices on many items sold by other retailers would undoubtedly go up as Fair Traders cracked down on stores which had been selling at cut rates (TIME, June 4, 1951 et seq.). However, many a manufacturer with overloaded inventories has found that the only way to lure customers in was to let retailers cut prices. While consumer items remain...
...offered a motion to amend the Eisenhower forces' amendment. Brown later said that he got the impression that Gabrielson, worried about criticism, might overrule a point of order. If Gabrielson sustained Brown's point, the convention might overrule the chair, and old Politico Brown didn't want that to happen to a friend...
...morning last week, 77-year-old Syngman Rhee called his cabinet together and prepared to spring the trap on representative government in South Korea. He told his ministers he planned to dissolve the Assembly, which opposes him, amend the constitution, and seek his re-election by direct vote of the people, whom he manipulates through a lough police force and a controlled press. Rhee's chief crony, Lee Bum Suk, the Home Minister, supported the move. The end of Korea's infant parliament was set for noon...
...three of them appointed by Prime Minister Malan) unanimously said no. Malan's action was "null and void." Said Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres: "To say that the Union of South Africa is not a sovereign state simply because Parliament hasn't the power to amend the Constitution is to state a manifest absurdity . . . It would be surprising . . . to be told that the great and powerful country, the United States, is not sovereign and independent because its Congress cannot pass any law it pleases...
About-Face. It was a complete about-face, and heavyset, rasping Defense Attorney Arthur H. Dean did not let Kramer get away with it. Dean quoted chapter & verse from a Government statement of 14 months ago: "There will be no amendment to change our course of action . . ." The Government had said flatly that the case would stand or fall on the overall conspiracy charge. Medina seemed amazed at the new turn of events. "This is the first time," said he, ". . . that the Government [has indicated] that if it lost completely on . . . the overall conspiracy charged, they would still be entitled...