Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election day, even his mother voted against the fat, foolish emperor. Reporters, touring the polls, could find no evidence of chicanery. There was no need for any. Premier Diem got his 98.2% of the vote. Only a few thousand among the 5,828,000 ballots were found to be invalid, a crushing defeat for the Communists, who had urged that defaced ballots be cast as a gesture of protest...
...upholding a lower court, which had refused the Jim Crow Texas Citizens Council an injunction to bar state funds from integrated schools, the Texas Supreme Court swept away the last legal obstacles to complete desegregation. It 1) declared invalid all sections of the state constitution and state statutes that required public-school segregation, and 2) knocked down that portion of the state's Gilmer-Aikin law that prohibited state funds to mixed schools. The decision, said Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, "settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis...
DIXON-YATES CONTRACT may be invalid after all, says AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, although he has repeatedly upheld its legality. Strauss's point: there may be a "conflict of interest" because Investment Banker Adolph Wenzell served simultaneously as a consultant to the Government and an executive of the First Boston Corp., which helped in the project's financing. Possible loss to Dixon-Yates, if the contract is declared illegal: some $3,000,000 spent on preliminary work at the West Memphis, Ark. power-plant site...
...group of priests called the Annunciationists (after the Church of the Annunciation in London), thought differently. Many ministers in the Church of South India were not ordained validly in the beginning, they argued. Furthermore, ordinations performed by the 13 Episcopally consecrated bishops of C.S.I, since 1947 are also invalid because the bishops were in communion with nonconformist clergymen. The Annunciationists also charged that the C.S.I, refused to accept the Christian creeds in entirety, pointed to a clause in the C.S.I, constitution in proof: "The uniting churches accept the fundamental truths embodied in the creeds . . . but do not intend thereby...
...circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs concocted by Aunt Margery Albright. This book...