Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual. But even among the whites, opposition to Verwoerd's policies was growing. For the first time, Afrikaner and English-speaking business groups spoke out. Their objection was simple: the disturbances were jeopardizing the economy. Jan Moolman, chairman of the Wool Board, called on the government to "amend their policies -or else." Peter Mosenthal, a textile manufacturer who is president of the Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce, declared: "The time has arrived when organized commerce must speak. The Bantu certainly have legitimate grievances...
...Amend the Sugar Act so as to give the President discretionary authority to alter the import quotas assigned to foreign sugar-producing countries-a measure that the President might find useful in dealing with Castro's Cuba (see BUSINESS...
...Amend U.S. immigration laws so as to 1) double the overall limit of immigration from quota countries, from the present level of 154,000 a year to 308,000 a year, and 2) base national quotas on the relative numbers that immigrated into the U.S. from various countries over the past 35 years rather than on the makeup of the U.S. population in 1920. The amendments would greatly increase immigration from Asia, Africa and Southern Europe (Japan's quota would rise from 185 to 1,859, Italy's from...
...never too late to amend the record, and last week Eastern Air Lines' Board Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker, 69, found himself one up on some old military history. As the No. 1 U.S. flying ace of World War I, Medal-of-Honorman Rickenbacker has long been credited with an official bag of 21 German planes, four balloons. Last week the Air Force, acting on a claim submitted by Captain Eddie last year, affirmed that on May 7, 1918, not too high over France, he had indeed gunned down his 22nd enemy aircraft. He had not got credit for this kill...