Word: proof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burden of Proof. The 1965 statute was passed because the case-by-case enforcement suits initiated under earlier civil rights acts had proved inadequate to overcome Southern resistance to Negro voting. The law banned literacy tests in seven states where less than half the voting-age population was registered. It also allowed the Attorney General to assign federal examiners to observe elections in counties covered by the act. Most important, it forbade the affected states and counties to adopt new voting laws and procedures without the approval of the U.S. Attorney General, and thus placed on the states the burden...
...governments, however, does not excuse us from using the tools we now have. The programs administered by the Cambridge Housing Authority are the means by which the public sector can most directly prove that it has answers to the problem, and we have fallen intolerably short of providing that proof. As of today, we have used only about 200 of the 1500 new units allocated to the Authority by the Federal Government. The Modernization Program for Public Housing, approved only this month, took seven full months to make its way through local and Federas agencies. I think we must...
...emission of loud and raucous noise has long been considered conduct sufficient to constitute disturbing the peace. Proof of commission of the crime is sufficient if the acts are of such a nature as tend to annoy good citizens and do in fact annoy any one person present," Cronin's opinion stated...
Today, July 3, Harvard Union Dining Hall, 8:30-12 midnight, featuring THE PROPHETS and refreshments. Admission: $1 per person plus proof of Harvard student status...
...Graduate Student Mixer, Radcliffe Graduate Center. Music by the Ken Reeves Orchestra and by the Central Park Zoo and free refreshments. Admission: $1 plus proof of graduate student status...