Word: amends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House that there was an accidental flaw in the bill; it would, as it stood, make it hard for a child born abroad of two U. S. parents to keep its U. S. citizenship. Instead of vetoing the bill the President requested Congress to recall and amend it. The bill's sponsors, Representative Dickstein and Senator Copeland, grumbling at the demand for a change, went to the White House, found that the State Department had found a real flaw. They took the measure back to the Capitol, got Congress to accept a four-word amendment, and two days...
Second move was to amend the Constitution in a way Suicide Penate had long fought for: 1) by removing civil cases from the jurisdiction of military courts even when constitutional guarantees are suspended; 2) by authorizing the confiscation of the property of men found guilty of misappropriating public funds, especially during the term of Tyrant Machado...
...Brazil. Japanese emigrants have been flocking to Brazil in late years. More than 150,000 of them are settled there on little farms, growing rice and mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising coffee. In 1933, 23,152 entered the country. A bill is now before the Brazilian Congress to amend the Constitution, limiting annual Japanese immigration to 2% of the present Japanese population. Foreign Minister Hirota wrote thus to Acting Foreign Minister Felix de Barros Cavalcanti de Lacerda...
...beef-raising Democrat John Benjamin Kendrick was elected to the U. S. Senate by such overwhelming majorities that the State seemed on the verge of choosing him in 1034 by acclamation. But two months ago Senator Kendrick died. In an amazing burst of nonpartisanship Republicans joined with Democrats to amend the State Constitution so that Wyoming's Governor, Leslie Andrew Miller, could appoint to the Senate Senator Kendrick's onetime secretary, Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney...
...Houses. But if student opinion were united, and pressure put on University Hall through the housemasters, it might be driven to admit that 3.2 beer with meals was a privilege which Harvard is certainly adult enough to claim, and to suggest this to the Massachusetts legislature. A simple amendment of the beer age limit from twenty-one to eighteen would be nothing but a legal acknowledgment of a plain fact. Even the Massachusetts legislature cannot remain forever so far from the walks of men, and so remote from their habits; with a little encouragement from the University, they would...