Word: legalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introducing his own civil rights bill, similar to a measure the Justice Department is preparing. Special Johnson point: the U.S. should set up a federal community-relations service designed to mediate civil rights controversies as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service tackles strike-threatening labor troubles. (Snapped an Administration legal eagle: "How can you conciliate, cut down, modify or negotiate constitutional rights in voting, schools, or Jim Crow?") Fellow Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy offered another version of last session's Kennedy-Ives labor bill before the Administration could get its own to Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders, with...
...proved unenforceable, Missouri's Thomas C. Hennings Jr. introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate to put sales of amphetamine inhalers on prescription only,* require druggists to keep records of sales. Now the Food and Drug Administration has decided to issue an order, under its present legal powers, to accomplish the same result. As for the Pfeiffer Co., it has resolved to drop amphetamine and, like S.K.F., put a nonstimulating product in its inhalers...
Three years ago Mme. Ngo began dipping into ancient files and poring over old laws and codes to draw up what was to become a declaration of independence for women. She wrote drafts in Vietnamese. French and English, sent them to legal experts all over the world for comment. Meanwhile, evoking the magic name of Trung, she rallied the women to the cause, soon began having sleepless nights and nightmares about the situations her bill did not cover, would furiously scribble notes in the night for the next day's revision...
...Native Communists, led by Prince Souphanouvong, a member of the royal family, controlled the provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly. The two provinces were regained, but at a price: two Cabinet posts for the Communists and the incorporation of two Communist battalions in the small royal Laotian army. As a legal party, the Reds and their allies made further gains in the May elections, emerged with 21 of 59 seats in the National Assembly. Governmental graft, corruption and inefficiency were doing much of the Reds' work for them. In November, Communist North Viet Nam, thinking it had Laos...
...vote by the academy two days earlier to drop the anti-Communist rule as "unworkable and impractical.'' Main reason: virtually certain Oscar nomination this year of The Defiant Ones. One of its coauthors was Nathan E. Douglas, who in 1953 pleaded the Fifth under his legal name of Ned Young during a House hearing. While Douglas-Young was thus ineligible for an Oscar. Co-Author Harold Jacob Smith had no such record. After a heated debate, the academy voted to leave blacklisting solely to producers: "The proper functioning of the academy is only to honor achievement...