Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signed the oath, but attached a three-paragraph proviso, thus making the entire oath invalid. At the same time, Mather issued another statement, calling the oath "completely antagonistic to the spirit which breathes through the Constitution of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." (He smilingly recalls, however, that he constitution of the Commonwealth was out of print at the time, and that he "couldn't find a copy of what I was swearing to uphold...
...NDEA funds last week because the Kennedy-Clark bill, which would have removed the "offensive" affidavit, had been shelved. Members of the administration have not commented specifically on the pledge of allegiance, but it seems likely the University would accept funds with only the pledge proviso attached...
...repatriates should go to South Korea-but insisted that the Japanese government must first pay "compensation" for the Koreans' years of "forced labor" in Japan. Unmoved, the Japanese pushed ahead, and, with the cooperation of the International Red Cross, set up a repatriation scheme that included a big proviso. Japan's condition: before boarding ship, each would-be repatriate would be asked privately by Japanese and Red Cross officials, "Do you wish to change your mind?" Last week, at 3,655 ward offices throughout Japan, clerks stood ready to sign up the promised rush of homesick Koreans...
...expenditures by concurrent resolutions, bypassing the President and his veto power. Determined to preserve the constitutional balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches, Ike hinted at a press conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved the TVA bill was a rare if not unique deal between the President and congressional leaders. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson went to the White House, gave Ike their assurances that...
Early in 1924 in Paris, Harold Loeb was the proud possessor of: 1) a little magazine with big pages called Broom; 2) a mistress; 3) the manuscript of a novel, soon to be accepted with the publisher's proviso that Loeb put back all the "a's" and "the's" he had deliberately left out; and 4) the friendship of a fledgling expatriate writer, amateur boxer and soso tennis player named Ernest Hemingway, who dubbed Loeb "one of the better guys of all time." By the end of the fiesta at Pamplona, Spain in the summer...