Hearing Held in Boston, Massachusetts, June 16-20, 1975

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - Schools - 740 pages
... Transcript of testimony regarding the program and plans for desegregation of Boston's schools ...
 

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Page 533 - Mr. Chairman, I do not have a prepared statement, but I would like to make a statement, if I might.
Page 390 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 5 - Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social machinery.
Page 8 - If the committee determines that evidence or testimony at an investigative hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, it shall— (1) receive such evidence or testimony in executive session ; (2) afford such person an opportunity voluntarily to appear as a witness; and (3) receive and dispose of requests from such person to subpena additional witnesses.
Page 2 - CHAPTERS have outlined a program of action to stimulate the expansive forces of individual enterprise, and at the same time to strengthen the ability of the economy to check either recessionary or inflationary trends. The program calls for action not only by the Federal Government, but also by State and local governments. Business firms and financial institutions have important roles to play in the maintenance of prosperity, and so do workers and consumers. If consumers should sustain an even rate...
Page 8 - Chairman may punish breaches of order and decorum by censure and exclusion from the hearings. "(e) If the Commission determines that evidence or testimony at any hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, it shall receive such evidence or testimony or summary of such evidence or testimony in executive session. The Commission shall afford any person defamed, degraded, or incriminated by such evidence or testimony...
Page 59 - Commons we will do everything we can to assist that. One of the things I would like to see would be a discussion between people like ourselves, who are well qualified to talk about this, and some representatives of, say, the Farmers' Union at a meeting in the House of Commons.
Page 7 - Georgia, , though they acted in accordance with the law of the land, as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States, in refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the State. 1829. Chief Justice Marshall, in pronouncing the opinion of the court, declared the act of the State to be " repugnant to the Constitution, treaties and laws of the United States ; and therefore void, and ought to be reversed and annulled...

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