Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hyperbolic analogy, the U.S. Senators approved his point. Last week the Senate passed, by a vote of 70 to 16, a resolution that advises Presidents to ask the consent of Congress before they ever again commit the U.S. overseas. The measure does not have the force of law, but merely expresses the "sense of the Senate." It nevertheless will stand as a clear warning that the Congress will not meekly accept unilateral presidential initiatives in foreign affairs...
...here tonight to state as a matter of public policy that the housing crisis is not simply an unfortunate but predictable result of 'the law of supply and demand" or "an economic fact of life." We cannot be satisfied merely to remark that the lack of adequate housing at reasonable prices is a natural consequence of the fact that more people want to live in Cambridge than the number of units available can absorb. New construction to expand the supply of housing is a need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here...
...opinion requested on the ordinance by the City Council, Cambridge City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53 stated, "It is my opinion that these and other problems which have arisen from excessive amplification of music at Cambridge common can best be regulated by an existing law...which imposes a jail term of not more than six months or a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or both for disturbing the peace...
...only punishment available is civil law, and here the university must remember with the romantics--you can't go home again...
...scene in which the waging of war against the French is justified through an exegesis of the Salic Law (caption: "A Meeting of Hawks"), the Archbishop of Canterbury is a caricature. He is dressed in a yellow-buttoned red hooped skirt that achieves a diameter of some four or five feet, suggesting rapaciousness and gluttony, Kahn makes him somewhat forgetful, too, and has the black-garbed Bishop of Ely prompt him now and then...