Word: enactment
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Even U.S. "migratory divorces" can be challenged when the divorcing state does not have proper jurisdiction over the divorcing couple. For this reason, reformers have long urged a uniform federal divorce code. Congress has no power to enact one without a constitutional amendment, and every proposed amendment since 1884 has failed because states jealously guard their right to marriage and divorce laws based on local conditions and moral attitudes. In fact, a federal law that would supersede local law is not necessary. The states ideally should get together and work out a uniform divorce code that would be agreeable...
Meanwhile, the British enact high military farce; the war has lost its point, and the rear echelon is a jungle of red tape and "bumf" in which the conniver, the spiv and the apple polisher win the pips, the crowns and the privilege. Ennis is fatally handicapped-and funny-not because he is himself farcical but because he is serious-about love, about music, and about the postwar world. Gallantly, he survives each pratfall (even when ordered to take a class in elementary shorthand when he should have been waving his long hands over an orchestra sawing...
...more to the point. In an era when the pace of social as well as technological change seems to be accelerating at a geometrical rate, the Congress tends to grind exceeding slow. The hyperactive 89th Congress is atypical; on Capitol Hill it is normally easier to obstruct than to enact. To appreciate how Congress usually functions, we need only go back to the first session of the 88th Congress in 1963. Then the House was wallowing in inaction, ignoring the Administration's advice and paying heed to the since discredited economic myths opposing the tax cut and the racist opposition...
Opposed were the delegates from the country's two largest unions, the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Orated Clive Jenkins, leader of the superintendents' and technicians' union: "No party could enact legislation so obnoxious as this and continue to call itself either democratic or socialistic." Deputy Prime Minister George Brown rose to defend the measure. "There is coming about a recognition that we are partners in an industrial democracy," he insisted. His words won the day-and approval for Wilson's wages plan...
...tried by the Retail Clerks, used low-keyed, soft-sell TV spots. But some of labor's public relations snags will take more than TV to solve. Union leaders have used their tremendous influence to fight Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to enact right-of-work laws (its repeal was passed by the House, is now before the Senate). No doubt, union membership has been held down by 14(b), particularly in the South. But the gains made, when and if it is repealed, may well be offset by adverse public sentiment; many...