Word: barred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After weeks of fuming, fretting and fussing over Adam Clayton Powell's storied peccadillos, the House of Representatives voted in 1967 to bar him from his seat. The Congressman from Harlem, who had sat in the House for 22 years, appealed to the federal judiciary for redress. Last week, after rebuffs at the district and appeals levels of the bench, Powell won an unusual victory. The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 1 that the House had acted unconstitutionally in denying him his congressional seat. In so doing, the Court mounted an unprecedented challenge to Congress, boldly declaring that...
...premise was simple enough. Since the Constitution sets as qualifications for admission only age, citizenship and state residence, the House could not add its own standards. Though Congress could expel a member by a two-thirds vote-a procedure spelled out in the Constitution-it could not bar him before he took his seat, as if it were passing an ordinary appropriations measure...
...ashore. In the interim, it apparently lost much of its potency. In the case of the Torrey Canyon, the real killers were the chemical detergents used to cleanse the sea, which British experts concluded caused as much as 90% of the damage to plant and animal life. In Santa Bar bara, nontoxic dispersal agents were used, and only in carefully regulated amounts...
...Even though Lake Nixon provided no spectator sports, the court declared, it was a place of public entertainment. Besides, it had leased 15 paddle boats from an Oklahoma firm, its jukebox was made in another state, and the ingredients of three out of four items served at the snack bar come from outside Arkansas...
...most blatant appeal to the freeloader in Everyman occurs at Cavanagh's on West 23rd Street, where drinking is done on the honor system; waiters bring full whisky bottles and setups to the tables, and customers are expected to tot up their own bar bills. "If you tell us you only had one double bourbon we'll believe you," reads an ad for Cavanagh's, and Ellman says: "We want the customer to feel that he's putting one over on us, that he's got the edge...