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...separate and unanimous decisions last week the U.S. Supreme Court dashed organized labor's high hopes for its favorite device to circumvent the right-to-work laws that now forbid union shop contracts in 20 states: the agency shop...
...proud to claim common citizenship with the U.S. farmer. His referendum vote clearly demonstrated that the national backbone, though morally soft and pliable in most sectors, stands straight and strong in the agricultural area. We sorely need this "old frontier" independence; God forbid that the New Frontier plow it under...
...standing in the church, but Vatican scholars have often relied on the society's discoveries in deciding whether to eliminate a nonexistent saint from the calendar. As a rule, the church takes a tolerant attitude toward cults that have been honored by time and history; it does not forbid St. Christopher medals, for example. Yet it is quick to eliminate veneration of more recent non-saints with a growing vogue. Vatican officials two years ago sternly clamped down on devotees of the Roman "martyr"' St. Philomena, whose authenticity was questioned by the Bollandists as far back...
...Dean's Office a constitution and by-laws." In this constitution the organization may also be reasonably expected not to flout the general rules under which the College administration must operate, among which are those Fair Educational Practice provisions of the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Act which forbid the College to discriminate among its students on the basis of race...
Another proposed amendment, so far endorsed by light eight states, is directed against a specific Supreme Court decision. The amendment would forbid Federal courts to intervene in the apportionment of state legislatures. A third proposed amendment contemplates a more sweeping subversion of the Federal judiciary: this is the celebrated "court of the Union" idea. It would set up an enormous tribunal composed of the chief justices of the fifty state supreme courts and with the power to throw out any Supreme Court decision it considered an invasion of states' rights. The noisy proceedings of such a court are amusing...