Word: states
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the election of his successor less than three weeks away, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez proclaimed a state of siege. In a volley of swift decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal majority to nullify any of his acts; 3) imposed censorship on press, radio and cables; 4) banned meetings and demonstrations; 5) empowered government officials to dismiss all remaining Liberal employees...
Panic spread fast as news of the state of siege exploded over Bogota. Tanks rumbled into the plazas. Rifle-toting troopers turned Congressmen away from the Capitol. Rumors spread through Carrera Septima crowds that Liberal leaders had been assassinated. Panicky shopkeepers slammed down their iron shutters. People stampeded. One woman, asked why she was running, answered: "Because everyone else is." An Austrian who had seen Dollfuss take over Vienna in 1932 said: "It is not only the same but exactly the same...
After his famous ride, Paul Revere turned in a swindle sheet, according to Edward J. Cronin, Massachusetts secretary of state. An expense account, dated 1775, which Revere presented to the Boston Committee on Safety, was put on public exhibition last week by Cronin, who dug it out of the Commonwealth's archives. Among the items for which thrifty Revolutionary Revere asked reimbursement: carrying dispatches (at 5 shillings a day), expenses for self and horse, outlays for printing...
Should a Roman Catholic judge uphold a law of his land which his church considers unjust? This delicate question was posed by the Pope himself last week before the central committee of the Union of Catholic Italian Lawyers in Rome. The Pope's answer: when a state law conflicts with the church's teaching, a Catholic jurist need not enforce...
...repercussions came fast. The National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington, D.C. explained that the Pope's speech was not "a newly arrived at position . . . The common view of theologians holds that the act of the judge in pronouncing a divorce is merely an official declaration that the state regards the civil effects of the marriage as no longer existing. Since this declaration is in itself a morally indifferent action, it can be permitted, at least in certain circumstances...