Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most serious effect was to prevent operation of birth-control clinics: the last one in Connecticut was shut down in 1939 after two doctors and a nurse were prosecuted under the 1879 law-Cannon also argued that in virtually every session of the state legislature since 1923, bills to amend or repeal the 1879 law have been introduced and all have failed. Therefore, contended Cannon, the law "represents the will of the people." That was a way of saying that Connecticut politicians of whatever creed cringe before the presumed power of the Roman Catholic Church, which counts 1.138,600 adherents...
President Kennedy, when he presented his education plan, said he would ask Congress to amend and expand the NDEA. The target of many universities has been section 1001 (f), which requires the taking of a loyalty oath and the filing of an affidavit disclaiming membership in or support of "any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
According to sponsor Thomas M. McNamara, the order to oppose Governor Volpe's $90 million highway bill would only apply to construction of an Inner Belt in Cambridge. McNamara said he hoped that the Cambridge State House delegation might amend the bill to give the City Council veto power over the route...
Attempts by Rep. Mary Newman of Cambridge to amend the bill so that the sale would have to pass a popular referendum at the polls in November also failed, 125 to 90. It is definitely expected that the bill will pass the House today...
Despite last-ditch efforts by Councilors Pearl K. Wise and Alfred E. Vellucci, and attorney Phillip Cronin '53, the Council voted not to amend the plan and thus to downgrade the controversial area from residence A-2 to residence C-1 and C-2. The former category allows only for one single family home per lot, while the latter embraces multi-family dwellings up to 85 feet high...