Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...
...Massachusetts court ruled against the Sunday censorship declaring that it was "void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and the press...
...French plan to organize the Sultan's deposition by a process known as "spontaneous evaporation." This will consist of looking into the throne room and discovering that the Sultan is no longer there, at which point Faure's regency council will rush in to fill the void...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state's censorship law (part of the Puritans' 300-year-old Sunday blue laws) is unconstitutional, "void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and the press." The decision resulted from a suit by Brattle Films, Inc. when state censors refused to allow Sunday showings of Sweden's Miss Julie. ("The girl in it is illegitimate; how would you like for your sister to see a film about an illegitimate girl?" a censor asked a theater manager...
...trace whatever of any blood other than Caucasian." (In deference to the proud descendants of Pocahontas, there is an exception in favor of those who may be "one-sixteenth or less" American Indian, but otherwise all white.) Under the law, white-colored marriages of Virginia residents are "absolutely void" even if they have been contracted out of state, and both parties in an interracial marriage may be sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary...