Word: amendment
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Numbers one and two would amend the constitution: the first to establish an order of succession to the governorship between election and inauguration, the second to increase the number of signatures required under the initiative and referendum rule for putting a question on the ballot. The amendemnt would make this number about 60,000 instead of the present...
...into the larger world that counts for so much more than sport. They will remember their happy undergraduate days, and they will be fired with a feeling of sportsmanship. The Duke of Wellington said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton; we would amend his inspired sentence to read: the battle of life is to be won on the playing field of Harvard Stadium...
Legal Hurdle. There was one legal hurdle to clear. The National Security Act of 1947 provides that a military man may not legally be Defense Secretary unless he has been out of active service for ten years. In one breath the President asked the Senate to amend the act for this special case and confirm the general (who retired as Chief of Staff five years...
Saltonstall and nine other Republicans joined 37 Democrats in voting to amend the act. The real surprise was that 20 Republicans and one Democrat (Nevada's McCarran) held out. The House, after almost as bitter an argument, passed the amendment by 220 to 105 (100 Republicans, five Democrats...
...Curb coffee speculation by increasing margin requirements, now around 15%, to 50% on the New York exchange; amend certain trading rules which permit Brazilian interests virtually to control the New York market...