Word: amends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration does not argue that the Bricker Amendment is totally pointless. It recognizes the same danger that worries Bricker and his supporters. But it contends that the present scope of the treaty-making power is necessary and that the nation has a safeguard in the requirement that treaties must be approved by the President and two-thirds of the Senators. As Secretary Dulles said in his testimony: "It takes quite an artist to amend the Constitution . . . The men who wrote it did a very good...
...Amendment. Old Troll Reed was on guard at the byroads, too. Afraid that the Administration might try hitching a makeshift EPT rider to the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Extension bill, Dan simply bottled up the reciprocal trade bill in his committee. The committee, said Dan, was "too busy" to deal with the bill-until the White House and congressional leaders gave their word that they would permit no such trick amendment. Dan won. "At my request," he announced last week, "I have now received airtight assurances from the White House, from the Senate and House leadership, that they will oppose...
Foreign-Trade Policy. He stood on his request for a one-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act, pending a combined legislative-executive study. From what he had heard of the Simpson bill [to "amend" the act by gutting it], there were some proposed amendments he couldn't possibly accept. Also, he had always felt that we should not have a rigid "Buy American...
Only 14 out of 21 Council members were present for last night's vote. Since this consititutes the two-thirds of the total membership necessary to amend the constitution, a unanimous vote was requisite for ratification...
...directors to be elected and allows the votes to be cast for one or more directors instead of for an entire slate, gives Green a chance to win some seats on the board. To block him, the company has called a special stockholders' meeting for May 5 to amend the bylaws in order to eliminate cumulative voting. Said Green: "This fight ... is going to cost the company a lot of money...