Word: legalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that King be listed simply-and only-as the wife of Peter Bourne, special assistant to the President. In the Green Book, married women are never allowed to be listed under their maiden names; that would give the Wrong Idea. Divorcing couples are barred from the register until their legal tangles are settled. But because the Green Book also serves as a protocol guide and automatically lists anyone ranked Assistant Secretary and up, an exception had to be made in order to include Michael Blumenthal, who is getting divorced, in his capacity as Secretary of the Treasury...
...negotiating package includes a substantial wage hike from the present level of $65 a day (up to perhaps $100), better safety procedures and a restoration of payments to pension funds and health programs that were stopped during past wildcat strikes. But the key demand is to make the wildcats legal. For years, U.M.W. contracts have provided grievance and arbitration procedures to settle disputes between union locals and employers. But the union claims that the mine owners cynically drag out the proceedings, knowing that if the miners walk out, it is an easy matter to get an injunction forcing them back...
...number of governments are moving in the direction of coercion. Some have introduced legal sanctions to raise the age of marriage. A few are considering direct legal limitations on family size and sanctions to enforce them. No government really wants to resort to this. But neither can any government afford to let population pressure grow so large that social frustrations finally erupt into irrational violence and civil disintegration...
From the questions it was clear that the Justices were struggling to adapt the most perplexing social questions into a manageable legal framework. They were obviously not comfortable. Justice Lewis Powell, normally the most courteous of Virginia gentlemen, uncharacteristically attacked Colvin: "We are here primarily to hear a constitutional argument," he said softly. "You have devoted 20 minutes to belaboring the facts, if I may say so. I would like help, I really would, on the constitutional issues...
Humes says he arranged the hearing with Jones, the governor's assistant legal counsel, primarily to try to persuade the state of Massachusetts to join Humes in a criminal libel suit against the state of New Jersey. Humes claims he was never served the warrant for his arrest issued by Jones, but a state police officer yesterday gave a different version of the sequence of events leading to Hume's present at-large status. According to the officer, who asked not to be identified, a suspect on whom an "out-of-state" warrant is issued has 90 days in which...