Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Received from Missouri's Republican Representative Thomas B. Curtis a proposal to amend the Constitution so as to limit the consecutive service of Senators and Representatives to twelve years. Explained Curtis, who is now in his third term: "There are very few Congressmen who come down to Washington with the thought in mind beyond serving a few terms . . . They simply get caught in a fascinating...
Reynaud's plan for reducing the recurrent crises: 1) make the constitution easier to amend, 2) then pass an amendment which makes dissolution of Parliament and new elections automatic when a government is defeated on a censure motion, or a vote of confidence, within two years after taking office...
...still sitting tight on the toll-road bill. The clear-thinking men had called in experts, held hearings, discussed at length, and had reached a "hopeless impasse." A clear majority wholeheartedly agreed that it was a very bad bill, but they just could not figure out how to amend it. A motion on the floor of the house to "blast" the bill out of committee and place it before the whole membership failed by one vote. The Craig forces were winning the fight by suffocation...
...bills would not only compel colleges to expel Communists and Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs, but would also amend the State's Teacher Loyalty Oath. The amended Oath would force all teachers to swear they are not, nor ever have been, members of the Communist Party...
...India's plague-on-both-your-houses style, but a let's-get-the-best-of-both-worlds neutralism. The Communists reacted with delighted promptness. "The U.S.S.R. has always been desirous of establishing and developing relations," announced Vyacheslav Molotov. Hinting disguisedly that Shigemitsu might perhaps care to amend Japan's relations with the U.S., Molotov proposed that Russia and Japan "normalize relations . . . in accordance with the interests of both sides." All in all, said Molotov, "the Soviet government takes a positive attitude...