Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting Trim. In Honolulu, lightweight Boxer Richie Shinn weighed in, found himself over the 133-lb. limit, removed his upper plate, ran around the block, came...
...almost 150 years, the U.S. had got along well enough without deciding who owned the mineral rights to land beneath its coastal waters-from low-water mark to the three-mile limit. Last week Congress voted to decide it, once...
...unlimited debate and on the strangling seniority system, and a hobble on the House Rules Committee. But it was a long step forward. Its key provisions: ¶ Reduce the crazy-quilt of standing committees from 48 to 19 in the House, from 33 to 15 in the Senate. ¶ Limit most Senators to service on two committees, most Representatives to one. ¶Registration of lobbyists, requiring them to file detailed accounts...
...what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have...
...Redin's trial and acquittal, like all Tass news from the U.S., was relayed through its bureau in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Except for four Washington correspondents, headed by earnest, well-liked Larry Todd, its U.S. staff of 18 reporters is based in New York. (The Russians limit each U.S. news organization in Moscow to one or two correspondents.) Only five of Tass's 18 U.S. men are Russians...