Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawaii's last monarch was Queen Liliuokalani, the buxom, strong-willed sister of Kalakaua, and, like her brother, a cultivated personage (poet, musician, composer of the famed Aloha Oe). Tough-minded Liliuokalani tried to overthrow the constitution as Hawaii plummeted into the depression that followed President McKinley's...
Barred by the state constitution from borrowing more than a piddling $150,000 directly, Soapy turned last February to Michigan's big businessmen, many of whom deeply dislike him. To the heads of 23 corporations he sent personal letters asking them to pay in advance some $28 million in...
Though decided by local considerations, last week's elections nonetheless had national significance. Under De Gaulle's new constitution, the election of France's Senate and the election of the President of the Republic are to be in the hands of electoral colleges largely composed of municipal...
Sun Tribesmen. For Japan's 46,780,000 women, Michiko-san's unprecedented break with ancient tradition is the most dramatic illustration of a change that has come to all of them-the direct result of the crushing defeat of Japan in the Pacific war, the unsettling occupation...
Fidel Castro is plainly convinced that in the realm of definitive justice, nothing beats a firing squad-even if Cuba's constitution forbids capital punishment. Last week he announced that his government would draft a new law demanding firing-squad executions for embezzlers of government money.