Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That thought haunted the authors of the Landrum-Griffin Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. To guard against the possibility, they made it a crime for a Communist Party member to hold union office. Among the first to be tried under the provision was San Francisco Longshoreman Archie...
» Upheld a lower federal court order requiring New York to hold a special legislative election on Nov. 2. The elec tion will be held under "Plan A," the first of four reapportionment plans passed last December by a lame-duck Republican legislature. The State Su preme court voided all...
It ordered the special election under Plan A, with the provision that the new legislature draft another apportion ment plan acceptable under the state constitution. Plan A has been violently denounced by Democrats as favorable to Republicans, who lost control of the legislature last year for the first time in...
The reason for the delay is rooted in still more ancient history. The Christian Democrats have proposed emergency legislation three times in the past eleven years, but since it would amount to a constitutional revision, they need a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag to enact it. Willy Brandt'...
The new reform law is so thorough that one of its provisions limits mem -bership of any individual to 15 company boards, ostensibly to keep him from being spread so thin that he cannot carry out his responsibilities to stock holders. The provision has already been dubbed "Lex Abs" by...