Word: rescindment
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DYED ORANGES, standard practice for 30 years among Florida growers, will stay that way, at least for another three years. The Food & Drug Administration has agreed to rescind an order banning dyes that make the fruit look appetizing...
Like 1954's announcement, the recent decree drew protest from both students and officers. Cadets are currently meeting in Shannon Hall, to draw up a request asking the Pentagon to rescind the order. I their petition is to have any effect in Washington, it will require official University endorsement. The University should grant this, not only out of consideration for its own students, but also from concern for the national defense policy. And if the College can make any contribution to this policy, the Air Force should consider its move and keep AFROTC at Harvard...
...news dealers through the mails. He and his two lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and Daniel Ross, immediately started a civil action against Summerfield, claiming the order was a "clear violation of the Constitution." They were right. On October 7, District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ordered the Post Office to rescind its order...
Shirey, pastor of a Cullendale. Ark. church, was asking the 95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) for a quick vote on the most disputed issue facing its six-day convention: a request that the assembly "reconsider and rescind" its 1954 pronouncement that "segregation is un-Christian." Pastor Shirey and six others had signed a minority report charging that the assembly erred in asking its 3,776 local churches to accept Negroes...
...state legislatures. It was ratified by Southern states in the Reconstruction period only because the Federal Government controlled them, and its principle has been widely ignored in the South ever since. Three states-Oregon, New Jersey and Ohio-ratified it and then tried to rescind their action, but Congress held that they could not. Three other states -Maryland, Kentucky and California-have never ratified...