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...state legislative experts are now waiting in dread for what other well-organized minorities may do to laws they dislike. While appropriations cannot be suspended in Michigan by referendum, tax legislation can-and a diehard group of tax haters could nullify the new income tax now under consideration and plunge the state into fiscal disarray merely by passing around petitions. Nor is there any easy way to prevent them. Because the right of referendum is guaranteed by the Constitution, a referendum cannot be mounted to eliminate it. The only way to change it is by the tortuous process of constitutional...
Indeed, mobile campers are even seducing diehard outdoorsmen from their old ways. "The family got so big that it took forever to organize with a tent," says Myrtle Savoie of Ludlow, Mass. Though Mrs. Savoie has been tenting for years, she now takes to the road with her husband, seven children and 69-year-old mother-in-law in their converted bus. "With our camper," she explains happily, "everything is built right in. We just add food and clothes and take...
...with the President's body and return quickly to Washington. The Dallas County Medical Examiner insisted that a standard, perfectly constitutional state law requiring an on-the-spot autopsy should not be broken. The scene was painful and absurd. But to Manchester, "it was a direct confrontation between a diehard defender of state sovereignty and the representatives of the national government, with the body of the thirty-fifth Chief Executive lying between them...
Such critics reflect a tendency to categorize Martin as a diehard, unswerving conservative-but Martin's record belies the notion. He is, rather, a monetary pragmatist who makes, and changes, policy according to what he sees as current requirements. A lifelong Democrat, Martin was a successful Wall Street broker and a familiar figure in Manhattan nightspots in the '30s. When he was named chairman of the New York Stock Exchange in 1938, President Roosevelt told him: "Your job is the worst in the world-next to mine." After leaving the exchange, Martin served as president of the Export...
...Georgeen Gambit. To be sure, old-fashioned racism still flourished in many contests; yet many diehard segregationists covertly courted the new Negro vote. The Negro turnout was disappointing in several states, often because of the sorry spectacle of segregationist running against segregationist...