Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats, 4 Republicans), that the Administration's civil-rights program is in for desperate rear-guard treatment when the House debates on it this week. The Southern Congressmen, calling the bill "sinister and iniquitous," declared that it would intensify racial antagonisms, and indicated that they would try to amend it to death. Even if the bill passes the House, it is certain to be filibustered in the Senate...
...concern for the seat of Government promptly got Wilson kicked in his own. News of Wilson's order was received in the hospital by former Army Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower. He bluntly disapproved the order, and Charlie Wilson hastened to amend it; for Washington's officers, civilian clothes suddenly became "optional or voluntary...
...there is a distinct dissimilarity between the performances of Earl and Huey as governors of Louisiana: what Huey wanted, Huey got; what Earl wants has begun to evade him with increasing frequency. Fortunately for Louisiana, Earl's predecessor, Governor Robert F. Kennon, led a successful campaign to amend the constitution so that a two-thirds legislative majority is now needed for all tax boosts, hence most of Earl's paralyzing tax increases seem doomed to defeat. But that does not mean that Earl will give up. When, after the hard-won reconsideration, his pari-mutuel tax bill...
Dulles also pitched in to amend the President's remarks on U.S. history. "In 1823," he said, "President Monroe proclaimed to the despotic alliance then headed by czarist Russia that 'we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . .'It was indeed farsighted and bold for our young nation thus to identify its own self-interest with the fate of freedom thousands of miles away. Yet the pronouncement of that principle, Webster recorded, was greeted with 'one general glow...
...Union Committee last week passed a motion to amend the Smoker out of the Committee's Constitution and thus out of existence. The amendment is scheduled to reach a final vote at the end of the required 15-day fallow period, ending after next week. A two-thirds majority of the Committee would eliminate the Smoker...