Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it easier to amend the Constitution. Last week Senators Wheeler and Bone proposed a Constitutional amendment, providing that if the Supreme Court declared a Federal law unconstitutional, Congress should have the power after the next general election to repass the law over the Supreme Court's "veto" by a two-thirds vote. Technically this would not provide a new means of amending the Constitution, but practically it would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected...
...gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched a drive for $1,000,000 with the avowed intention of restoring Prohibition before 1945. Distillers who remember that the Volstead Act was preceded by just such an accumulation of Dry spots are ready to devote...
Belper by his first wife, the present Countess of Rosebery, at whose Town House the reception was held. Last year the Hon. Lavinia won the Nottingham Junior Lawn Tennis Championship, next broke her collar bone riding in a point-to-point race. Last week her father, Lord Belper, delighted the happy pair with a wedding present of a fine brood mare, but knowing Viscount & Viscountess St. Davids bestowed the gift supreme: 24 volumes of the Blood Stock Breeders Review. In the friendly atmosphere of English tenantry toward their Duke no less than 94 ash trays and 61 lamps came...
...winter of 1932 "Uncle Dan" Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and eight other railroad presidents met 21 representatives of railroad labor in the Palmer House at Chicago. The U. S. railroads, said "Uncle Dan" in effect, were just about broke. Maintenance and fixed charges had been cut to the bone. Would the 1.000,000 U. S. railway employes take at 10% temporary deduction in pay to save the roads from ruin? The workers' representatives said yes. Two years later in Washington Capital and Labor again got together, agreed on a staggered plan to restore the deduction, thus unsensationally closing...
...Department of English shys away from Public Speaking much as it would from a mad dog, locking up the rude intruder in an academic cellar along with a bone or two. Since to the scholars of literature oral English is not quite respectable and nowheres near par with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus...