Word: abolishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight that Lady Rhondda started did not end there, though few besides her could get much worked up over belonging to a parliamentary anachronism which can delay legislation, but cannot prevent it. The leveling Labor Party wanted to abolish the House of Lords altogether. Finally, early this year, to offset Labor's objections, the Tories pushed through a bill to give the House of Lords new blood by the creation of life peers, both male and female, whose descendants would not be titled. * Their children would be addressed as "The Honorable." As for the husband of any new lady...
Secretary of Defense is the supreme officer in the Department." He will have broader and more direct control over the man in uniform, bypassing the service secretaries in operational matters. The old requirement that the services must be "separately administered," now reads "separately organized," i.e., the Defense Secretary cannot abolish services, but the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force are no longer in the chain of operational command. The Defense Secretary now has explicit authority to assign weapons to services as he sees fit, a powerful weapon in itself for putting an end to service rivalries...
...their Marxist war against Christianity, East Germany's Communists try to abolish as many religious rites as possible, but they have found that even certified atheists have a hankering for ceremony. Result: an atheist liturgy in which the Communists have substituted "name-givings" for christenings, "youth dedications" for confirmations and "secular funeral orations" for religious burials. Latest addition: the "socialist wedding...
...provision giving Congress what amounts to a veto over any Pentagon decision to transfer or abolish a "major combatant function" is an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism...
...expects to abolish the 1947 Table of Allocations, which assigned frequencies by location throughout the country. This means that channel assignments will be made on first-come, first-serve basis...