Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic congressional majorities had as good a chance to enact it next year as they have had in the recent past...
Both Judge Tamm in the Covert case and the Supreme Court in its Toth decision suggested a possible solution to the dilemma. The Congress, they said, could enact legislation giving the U.S. civil courts jurisdiction over certain civilians abroad who are exempted, by treaty or otherwise, from the jurisdiction of local courts. As a Defense Department spokesman said last week, in referring to the armed forces dependents and employees overseas: "They are U.S. citizens and we cannot leave them free to go their merry way with no accountability. We want all our people accountable somewhere...
KENTUCKY: Grade B Plus. Governor Lawrence Wetherby and his education officials promise to enact the Supreme Court mandate. Out of 224 school districts, including that of Lexington, 20 or 25 will integrate this fall. Louisville (pop. 369,129), where Jim Crow barriers are fast crumbling, will integrate in 1956. Segregation bars are down at all the state colleges and most private colleges and universities...
...take lawful advantage of every moment of the law's delays . . . Litigate? Let us pledge ourselves to litigate this thing for 50 years. If one remedial law is ruled invalid, then let us try another; and if the second is ruled invalid, then let us enact a third...
...visitors that even for TIME this was an unusual morning. A camera crew had come to film television sequences for the British Broadcasting Corp. According to the script, TIME'S Foreign News Editor Thomas Griffith and a few members of his writing staff were to re-enact one of the frequent story conferences that are an important part of TIME'S editorial work. BBC plans to show the film later this month on its popular TV program, London Town, to give Britons an insight into TIME'S editorial operations...