Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislature. Unlike Congress, however, state institutions are clearly subordinate under the Constitution to the Federal judiciary. The Supreme Court has been understandably reluctant to try to extend such power to directly oppose Congress, which has control over the Court's appropriations, membership, and jurisdiction. In Kilbourn v. Thompson, it acknowledged that it could not consider charges against Senators for actions performed in their official capacity, but it did allow the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to be sued. Presumably, the Court could order the Clerk of the House to inscribe Powell's name on the list of members...
...committee on bills and overtures ruled that the phrase was directed not at individuals but at nations, and to clinch the argument, the church's chief administrative officer, Stated Clerk William P. Thompson, read to the assembly a Defense Department memorandum declaring that "commitment to the Confession would not disqualify an individual for a position requiring access to classified information." The statement was issued with the approval of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a Presbyterian...
Three years have passed since six-year-old Craig Thompson lost his right arm in a suburban St. Paul auto accident, but his family has yet to receive a cent in compensation. Reason: the insurance company involved has gone broke. Los Angeles Motorist Dominga Lopez found herself in a different kind of bind. She carried a $100-deductible policy, and her insurance company tried to get her to pay $200 damages herself by insisting that a three-car smashup was actually two separate accidents. In Memphis, a collision with a city bus cost Businessman T. J. Downs...
...legislature had also sagged in 1965. There had been a leadership fight for the Speaker's chair, and in the ensuing struggle, John Toomey lost the chair of the Ways and Means Committee. Whereas he enjoyed the ear of the former, retired speaker, John F. "Iron Duke" Thompson, he had no c'ose relationship with his successor. Sargeant's bid to remove the remaining vestiges of the veto did not run into opposition from the new leadership in either the House or the Senate...
Also at the banquet, senior Andy Cahners was awarded the William Nelson Unsung Hero trophy. Improvement awards went to a fleet of distance men, Jim Baker, Doug Hardin, and Spider McLoone. Other recipients of track silverware were Wayne Anderson. Dave McKelvey, Randy Thompson, Bill Jewett, Ron Wilson, Dick Benka, Frank Haggerty, and Steve Schoonover...