Word: contradicted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Contradict Myself." Next step for the bill is a Senate-House conference, where several discrepancies must be ironed out. In the final moments of debate, the House knocked out two provisions already in the Senate bill. One would have permitted individual counties in states affected by the automatic trigger to free themselves of federal scrutiny by proving that more than 50% of their voting-age Negroes were registered. Another would have permitted some 330,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans in New York to vote, even though they did not know English, by showing proof of a sixth-grade education...
...Well and good - I contradict myself," replied Manny Celler, still quick in the head at 77. "I remember what Walt Whitman said in the Song of Myself." Quoted Manny...
...contradict myself...
Very well then I contradict myself...
Speaking for a six-man court majority, Chief Justice Warren ruled that the Cuban ban does not contradict Kent, because it applies to all citizens and does not penalize individual beliefs. As for the free-speech argument, he said, "the right to speak and publish does not carry with it the unrestrained right to gather information." But what about delegation of powers? Acting under the 1926 law, said Warren, the State Department restricted travel to Ethiopia, Spain and China in the 1930s, and later to many Iron Curtain countries. By not acting, said Warren, Congress implicitly approved such administrative rules...