Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare is a "savage and barbarous" system that strips recipients of all dignity. If millions of the poor could be shown how to claim all the benefits to which they are legally entitled, Cloward believes, they would so overload welfare rolls that Congress would have no choice but to enact a guaranteed minimum income...
...mistress of ceremonies, played by Blyth Danner, announces that three hobos will re-enact the scene in which they discovered and buried the body of Joseph Axminster, another vagabond, so that his two friends in the audience will know what became of him. She also announces that the back of the stage--bare except for a crate that becomes Axminster's coffin and some stools--is the municipal garbage dump and that off to the right is a jail. Her best acting is done later in the show when she play's Axminster's dead body...
...deal with Southern segregationists' violence. In its decision last week, the Supreme Court made it clear that such legislation is not only necessary but welcome. Six of the court's nine justices agreed in principle with Justice Tom Clark that Congress does have the power to "enact laws punishing all conspiracies-with or without state action-that interfere with 14th Amendment rights...
...frame of mind of the Roman Catholic Church-its fresh awareness of living in a pluralistic world and its strengthened commitment to the liberty of man's conscience-is softening its historic opposition to easier civil divorce laws. In New York, the state legislature is about to enact, with Catholic acquiescence, the first reform bill since the 1787 passage of a statute that permits divorce only on grounds of adultery. Speaking through their Albany lobbyist, Charles Tobin Jr., New York's bishops made it clear that they would not use their spiritual authority to influence the votes...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. bigwigs gathered in Bal Harbour, Fla., for their annual executive-council meeting last week, they were in a grim mood. They were mostly unhappy over Congress' second refusal to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows states to enact right-to-work laws. Pete McGavin, executive secretary of the federation's maritime-trades department, spoke for many of his colleagues when he observed: "If President Johnson had put as much emphasis on 14(b) as he did on his wife's beautification program, the measure would have gone through...