Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect on the uninformed is to give the impression that marriage between a white and a Negro is legal in California. You are referred to Sec. 60. Civil Code of California: "All marriages of white persons with Negroes. Mongolians, or Mulattoes, are illegal and void...
...same were contracted, are valid in this State." This, however, is a principle of law which has been in effect in most English-speaking countries for centuries and is not peculiar to California. You will note that the first section referred to makes the marriages mentioned "illegal and void.'' They are thus classed with incestuous and bigamous marriages and are distinct from those marriages which are merely voidable and which may be annulled and from those marriages which may be dissolved by a decree of divorce. In other words California does so mind these unions of Negro...
...stretch of the imagination, an historic oration. But it did have one great quality?earnestness?and with that alone the Speaker was able to sweep the House back to order and action. The Ways & Means Committee hastily evolved a new set of tax schemes to fill the void left by the Sales Tax. Leaders of the late insurgency fell over themselves to pledge support to this substitute program. United by the Garner speech and perhaps a little mortified at its earlier behavior, the House buckled down and adopted that program before the lobbies of interested industries could swing into action...
...States the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution.* Many have been the cases of railroads and utilities which have convinced a majority of the Supreme Court that rates fixed by Federal commissions were too low to earn a fair return on their property, were thus "confiscatory" and hence constitutionally void under the 5th Amendment...
Only five of the 25 constitutional amendments proposed by Congress have failed of State ratification.* Unless three-fourths of the State Legislatures ratify this latest proposal within seven years, it will lapse, becoming null and void. Virginia's hasty ratification started a race among the States to tack the "Lame Duck'' Amendment to the Constitution after the one providing for woman suffrage. Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George...