Word: amends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were bills to: recondition the vessel Prowler and return it to the Pomperaug Council of Boy Scouts (Bridgeport, Conn.), who had surrendered it for purposes of war; amend the Constitution to let Congress regulate marriage and divorce; issue 3? airmail postcards on "good stiff paper"; and authorize federal funds for fighting cattle grubs...
...other features of the present Constitution should be altered concurrently in order to clear the last traces of the present "closed-corporation" system. First, a required University audit of all Freshman Affairs books, and, Secondly, the revision of the present amending procedure of the Constitution. Under the existing proviso it is impossible for any groups but the Council itself to amend the constitution. The corporation is not only closed, but was meant to stay closed...
...other features of the present Constitution should be altered con-currently in order to clear the last traces of the present "closed-corporatino" system. First, a required University audit of all Freshmen Affairs books, and, secondly, the revision of the present amending procedure of the Constitution. Under the existing proviso it is impossible for any group but the Council itself to amend the Constitution. The corporation is not only closed, but was meant to stay closed...
Handsome, dignified Major Richard E. LoBuono, onetime provost marshal at the depot, had been called as a defense witness for Smith. Under triphammer questioning LoBuono began to amend his answers. Among the cross currents of his testimony was one which swirled close to Colonel James A. Kilian, the depot's bespectacled former commandant. LoBuono testified that he had been shaken by Kilian's threats. One of them: "I made you what you are today and I am going to hang you." Later, LoBuono said, he "had gained the impression" that Kilian "was trying to control witnesses...
...would drastically amend or replace the U.N.O. Charter by a constitution setting up a world state with "limited but definite" powers. The chief powers: control of the atomic bomb and all other heavy weapons; the right to inspect industrial and other installations in all member countries to insure that no nation was preparing...