Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This controversial Barden Bill wants to give the money to the States with the sole proviso that it not be used for so-called "auxiliary aids"--health programs, buses to and from school, and so on. Since these auxiliary aids are in some States granted to Catholic parochial schools, the Catholic hierarchy, particularly Cardinal Spellman of New York, has argued that this constitutes discrimination. If a child in a public school gets a bottle of milk at public cost, Spellman says, the government is morally obliged to give a bottle of milk to a Catholic child in his parochial school...
Illegal evidence could be legally introduced in state trials, said the majority, in any state whose laws do not specifically outlaw it. If words mean what they say (a proviso that Justice Felix Frankfurter has sometimes disputed), the majority seemed to be saying that the protection of the Fourth Amendment does not extend to all citizens. The decision left 30 of the 48 states free to use the evidence that has to be tossed out of all federal courts. To compound the confusion, Justice Frankfurter added one more helpful remark to the majority opinion: if a state passes...
Comments on the ballots in favor of letting Communists teach often added the proviso that they be kept out of secret government work and that they be labelled as Communists...
...underground railroad operated by Zoltan Vas as a sideline. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government, which is negotiating the terms of a trade agreement with Israel, is using the Jews for bargaining purposes. It has declared that it will permit the Jews to emigrate, but with a sharp proviso: the property each emigrant takes with him is balanced off against bananas, lemons and other future imports to Hungary from Israel...
Because of these doubts about the club system, the resolution chartering the Sphinx Club contained a proviso stating that the charter did not constitute Council endorsement of the club system. The measure chartering the Sphinx Club was also closely linked to a resolution urging next year's Council to investigate the club system...