Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gerrymander and requiring the states to divide their districts into compact units of between 300,000 and 400,000 people (the census basis on which seats would be apportioned ideally). While few Congressmen would argue about the unfairness of the existing system, there was little chance that they would enact the anti-gerrymander legislation in a hurry. The hard political fact was that too many of them owed their jobs to the shoestrings and saddlebags...
Provost Buck said last night that by Spring the Faculty will probably enact definite legislation on the College advising system...
After nearly three hours of debate, the Student Council last night passed resolutions urging the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to enact compulsory mid-term grades and the "cumulative credit" system to meet any possible war emergency...
More Taxes. The $5 billion tax boost bill now in Congress would be only a first installment. "Congress should enact further tax legislation as soon as possible . . . This should include a just and fair excess-profits...
...Innocent & Misguided. "Nevertheless," he said, "there are some people who wish us to enact laws which would seriously damage the right of free speech and which could be used not only against subversive groups but against other groups engaged in political or other activities which were not generally popular." The President was obviously talking about the Mundt-Ferguson bill, which Republicans in Congress were vigorously sponsoring...