Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Thomas Stanley of Virginia called a special session of the General Assembly for next month, to enact a program of all-out resistance to integration. Among the things the governor wants: power to withhold funds from any locality "whenever it is determined the public interest, or safety, or welfare so requires," i.e., whenever the schools desegregate. Only eight months ago, Governor Stanley had apparently endorsed the principle that local districts could desegregate if they wished. But since then, Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd had called for "massive resistance" to all integration. Last week Governor Stanley declared flatly: "There...
...political views of Washington attempted to halt the disfranchisement of Negroes by state constitutional amendments that Mississippi had begun in 1890 and that South Carolina was about to enact when Washington delivered his Atlanta address. Shortly thereafter he urged that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much large numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more...
Menderes suggested that the remedy is to remove the parliamentary immunity of "slanderers," has talked of banning political meetings except immediately before elections. "If the laws are not sufficient, we shall enact new laws," cried Menderes...
...weeks as chief of France's first Socialist-run government in eight years, has had frustratingly little chance to carry out Socialist policies. Like most Socialists a visceral pacifist, he has been compelled by events to call up troops to wage war in Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military menace, urging disarmament...
Under the city charter, a council majority can declare a state of emergency which empowers the mayor to supersede the chief of police and enact whatever measures he feels necessary to cope with the situation...