Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court will have to decide on three major issues: whether DeGuglielmo is eligible to become manager; whether the Council removed Curry under the proper law; and whether DeGuglielmo can waive his state pension and thereby qualify to receive the city manager's salary
First, there were the legal questions. Was the majority five proceeding correctly? Was it dismissing Curry under the proper law? Wouldn't the Council be reversed in the courts? Combined with this approach was the threat of turning Curry's dismissal into a popularity contest. The hearing, Crane claimed, would be jammed. "You won't be able to get an auditorium big enough to hold the people that want to come and will come." Still remaining was the possibility of escalating the political conflict: "Only a few torpedoes of minor size were let go till now," Crane said before...
Even U.S. "migratory divorces" can be challenged when the divorcing state does not have proper jurisdiction over the divorcing couple. For this reason, reformers have long urged a uniform federal divorce code. Congress has no power to enact one without a constitutional amendment, and every proposed amendment since 1884 has failed because states jealously guard their right to marriage and divorce laws based on local conditions and moral attitudes. In fact, a federal law that would supersede local law is not necessary. The states ideally should get together and work out a uniform divorce code that would be agreeable...
...trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done with mutton fat, bad drains, and skeins from bowls of bread and milk to convey the squalor of life and the hatred of it that is proper to fiction of this genre...
Even given these facts, we do not think that strikes, or for that matter labor unions, are the proper means of dealing with educational disputes...