Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their graduation. A Harvard spokesman, President James B. Conant's assistant, John Russell, complained that while defense factory hands were exempted from the draft, chemists-in-training, equally vital to defense, were not. Because they feared being called unpatriotic, delegates eventually adopted a compromise resolution: that Congress should amend the Selective Service Act to let a conscripted collegian finish his current academic year before starting service...
...press conference, after telling newsmen that there was "no news today." he held forth in monologue for 45 minutes. From it emerged the shape of his plan to aid Britain more directly without tangling in such political barbed wire as the Johnson and Neutrality Acts, for moves to amend either act would mean filiblustery months of debate in Congress while England was being bombed barren...
...Senate two bills remained for consideration. One was the bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act, sponsored in the House by wing-collared Representative Howard Worth Smith of Virginia. The other was the controversial Logan-Walter Bill to subject the rules and decisions of Government agencies to review in the courts (TIME, April 29). Both bills passed in the House with big majorities, both were sidetracked in the Senate. Both were slated for a Presidential veto, if they...
...martyr amid golden fires Cried out: "While Red Knight fought -with Black, The White Lady, with both their squires, Made the beast with double back; And while the great St. Austin preached, So air grew gold with angels' wings, A beggar scratched because he itched; I perish to amend these things, And while in blazing shirt I stand, Priest jostles knave in the dark street, Better to see my burning hand Fall off, and sputter at my feet...
...sponsorship of the U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children was due in Manhattan. When the next boatload would arrive, the committee could not tell. Problem was to find ships to bring them. This week the Senate approved the Hennings Bill (already passed by the House) to amend the Neutrality Act, allow U. S. ships, plainly marked, to go into combat zones to evacuate children. The Bill was not likely to be vetoed by the President; more likely to be vetoed by Adolf Hitler...