Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future territorial expansion, and 2) required TVA to start paying back, at $10 million a year, the $1 billion that the U.S. Government has invested in it over the past 25 years. The President approved all three points, but he strenuously objected to a provision empowering Congress to amend future TVA project plans and expenditures by concurrent resolutions, bypassing the President and his veto power. Determined to preserve the constitutional balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches, Ike hinted at a press conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because...
...cloth such as the Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead has in relation to the questions of birth and death. He asks for legislation for mercy killing. We have the greatest legislation of all, divine legislation, "Thou shalt not kill," and no man has the right to amend this...
...think that the Supreme Court has the power to amend the Constitution...
...Certainly not to amend...
President Eisenhower echoed Stanton's "ridiculous," instructed U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to look for solutions. The FCC, in full accord with the presidential action, suggested that any real remedy will have to come from Congress, which has the power to amend or strike out Section 315. But until the Attorney General or Congress finds an answer, Chicago still has Lar Daly on its wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor...