Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues turn out to be Walt Whitmans, rejected by the people whom they would serve. For one suspects that they have forgotten (or perhaps they have never known) the hard truth, "Nothing is further from the common people than the corrupt desire--to be common people," if one may amend Mr. Santayana's dictum...
...veterans vote by voting for the Bonus, they wanted a share of the 3,500,000 A. F. of L. vote. Few Senators cared to fight the bill. Daniel Hastings of Delaware criticized it for what it did to labor minorities. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland proposed to amend the bill by making it illegal for anyone-not merely employers-to coerce an employe to join or not to join any union. He was answered that such an amendment would "weaken the bill." Labor organizing not being a parlor game, the amendment would obviously have prevented...
...kicking baby, the Progressive Party, by dealing a typically LaGuardian blow right in the spot where the United States should feel of most. In his radio address this Mayor made the perennially startling statement that the only practical way out of the country's present economic difficulties is to amend the Constitution...
...Mennonite farmers have therefore signed. But not the Amishmen, despite the fact that a tenet of their religion requires meek obedience to the law of the land. Last week AAA officials in Washington were perplexed over the matter, finally decided that the thing to do was to have Congress amend the Tobacco Control Act exempting the Amishmen as "conscientious objectors...
...Introduced at a time when the Gold Clause Cases have crowded it off the front pages and out of the public mind, its legislation has been allowed to be shaped by a handful of theoretical insurance advocates and a certain group of Democratic Barnums and bureaucrats each desirous to amend the bill in some regretable fashion in order to get a modicum of credit...