The language was added in an amendment from William J. Hughes and referred to as the Hughes Amendment.

The Hughes Amendment affected only machine guns.

On the Court, Roberts was a swing vote between those, led by Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Harlan Fiske Stone, as well as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who would allow a broader interpretation of the Commerce Clause to allow Congress to pass New Deal legislation that would provide for a more active federal role in the national economy, and the Four Horsemen ( Justices James Clark McReynolds, Pierce Butler, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter ) who favored a narrower interpretation of the Commerce Clause and believed that the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protected a strong " liberty of contract.

Later in life he challenged the 19th Amendment before the Supreme Court in Fairchild v. Hughes, but he was held not to have proper standing to bring a suit.

As debate for FOPA was in its final stages in the House before moving on to the Senate, Rep. William J. Hughes ( D-N. J .) proposed several amendments including House Amendment 777 to H. R.

Recorded Vote 74 was the controversial Hughes Amendment that called for the banning of machine guns.

" However, after the voice vote on the Hughes Amendment, Rangel ignored a plea to take a recorded vote and moved on to Recorded Vote 74 where the Hughes Amendment failed.

In another case, Raytheon was ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to treat groundwater at the Tucson Plant ( acquired during the merger with Hughes ) in Arizona since Raytheon used and disposed metals, chlorinated solvents, and other substances at the plant since 1951.

Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Hughes observed the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution clearly forbade the states from excluding citizens from juries due solely to their race.

The fourth Harpur & Iles novel, Protection, was televised by the BBC in 1996 as Harpur & Iles, starring Aneirin Hughes as Harpur and Hywel Bennett as Iles.

In December 1916 the Commonwealth government led by Labour Party renegade Billy Hughes declared the IWW an illegal organization under the Unlawful Associations Act.

Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April, and May, 1937 ( including the Social Security Act cases ), the Court would sustain a series of New Deal legislation .... Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court-packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the court's majority would uphold it.

In spite of widespread speculation that Roberts only agreed to join the court's majority in upholding New Deal legislation, such as the Social Security Act, during the spring of 1937 because of the court packing plan, Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision " in the Parrish case and that the delayed announcement of the decision created the false impression that the Court had retreated under fire.

In 1869, Thomas Hughes, a Union-sympathizer and president of East Tennessee University, secured federal wartime restitution funding and state-designated Morrill Act funding to expand the college, which had been occupied by both armies during the war.

* On Friday 20 April 2007, a Private Member's Bill aimed at exempting Members of Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act was ' talked out ' by a collection of MPs, led by Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes and Norman Baker who debated for 5 hours, therefore running out of time for the parliamentary day and ' sending the bill to the bottom of the stack.

* The Smith – Hughes Act – 1917

In 1909, Executive Order No. 124, of Governor-General W. Cameron Forbes, declared the Act No. 1748 annexing Corregidor and the islands of Caballo ( Fort Hughes ), La Monja, El Fraile ( Fort Drum ), Sta.

The reciprocity of this agreement allowed Dunwoody instructors to enroll and receive credit for any courses offered by the College of Education at the University that were a part of the teacher training authorized by the Smith Hughes Act.

As a backbencher, McCay opposed amendments to the Defence Act 1903 proposed by Billy Hughes of the Australian Labor Party that called for peacetime conscription.

In 1966, Howard Hughes attempted to buy the Stardust for $ 30. 5 million but was thwarted by government officials on the grounds that his acquisition of any more gambling resorts might violate the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Two of the U. S. companies named in the report – Loral Space and Communications Corp. and Hughes Electronics Corp. – were later successfully prosecuted by the federal government for violations of U. S. export control law, resulting in the two largest fines in the history of the Arms Export Control Act.

Though at first the Court had accepted some of the New Deal legislation over the objections of the four conservative justices, in the 1935 term, the Four Horsemen, together with Roberts and Hughes, voided the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 ( United States v. Butler, 297 U. S. 1 ( 1936 )), along with the Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railroad Act, and the Coal Mining Act.

Being left her mother's home, Rose hosted a salon there, leading politicians such as Bernhard Ringrose Wise, William Holman, W. M. Hughes and Thomas Bavin met and discussed the drafting of the bill that eventually became the Early Closing Act of 1899.

Former Labor Prime Minister ( and later Nationalist ) Billy Hughes forced through the Unlawful Associations Act ( 1916 ) through Federal Parliament in five days during December 1916, then had the IWW declared an unlawful association.

Under the War Precautions Act, 1914, Hughes quickly created a plain-clothed police force, which commenced operations in mid-December 1917.

After several of Kentucky's cities passed their own local open-housing legislation in 1966 and 1967, Kidd worked with Senator Georgia Davis Powers and Representative Hughes McGill to introduce the Kentucky Fair Housing Act to the Kentucky General Assembly.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

* 1975 – The Hughes ( later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing ) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

Thailand-based Shinawatra Computer and Communications Co. Ltd. ( now Shin Corporation ) signed a US $ 100 million contract with Hughes Space and Communications Company Ltd. in 1991 to launch Thailand's first satellite communications project.

* September 30 – The Hughes Helicopters ( later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS ) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

He has now been overtaken by long track speed skater Cindy Klassen and long track speed skater / road cyclist Clara Hughes, who each have a total of 6 medals.

By 2000, Hughes Space and Communications ( now Boeing Satellite Development Center ) had built nearly 40 percent of the more than one hundred satellites in service worldwide.

In 1982, he joined with ex-Pat Travers guitarist Pat Thrall to form Hughes / Thrall, they released one self-titled album which went virtually unnoticed at the time but is now often cited by many fans / musicians to be their favourite Glenn Hughes album.

He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is The Innocent Voyage ( 1929 ), better known now as A High Wind in Jamaica, as Hughes himself would rename it shortly after its initial publication.

In 2011 market shares were divided between Hughes Christensen, Smith Bits ( recently acquired by Schlumberger ), REEDHycalog ( acquired by NOV in 2008 ), Security-DBS ( now Halliburton Drill Bits and Services ) HDBS, and smaller companies such as Tercel Bits, Drilformance, VIPER BITS, DOWDCO, Varel, TSK, PDC Logis, Focusrocbit, Sam ( AOE ), Walker-Mcdonald et al., Ulterra, Lone Star Drill Bits, OTS, and Shear Bits Ltd. making up the rest.

USD in 1999 ( now called: BAE Systems ), and Raytheon acquired Hughes Aircraft for 9. 5 bil.

During this period contracts were awarded to Hughes Aircraft ( Ground Systems Group ) to develop a terminal suitable for operational use in AWACS and ground command and control systems and to Singer Kearfott Corporation, now BAE Systems, to develop a terminal suitable for fighter aircraft installation.

High technology in Malibu: the first working model of a laser was demonstrated by Dr. Theodore Maiman in 1960 in Malibu at then Hughes Research Laboratory ( now known as HRL Laboratories LLC ).

Petrolite Corporation ( now part of Baker Hughes Inc .) bought Bareco and has continued to operate the plant.

USD in 1999 ( now called: BAE Systems ), and Raytheon acquired Hughes Aircraft for 9. 5 bil.

A new party, the Country Party ( now the National Party ), was formed, representing farmers who were discontented with the Nationalists ' rural policies, in particular Hughes ' acceptance of a much higher level of tariff protection for Australian industries ( that had expanded during the war ) and his support for price controls on rural produce.

* Rights to the The Caddo Company / Howard Hughes films produced by Hughes for UA are now owned by Universal.

Phillip Hughes batted, bowled and fielded left handed before a shoulder injury, he now fields right handed but hasn't continued bowling.

The new hour format now featured John Hart reading the news from Washington and CBS News Moscow correspondent Hughes Rudd as an occasional contributor.

Alex Hughes Close is now named after him.

Also in 1936, a permanent grandstand was built at Park Hughes and Park de Young -- what is now Taylor Field.

Apprised of this, Paul Bern, by now romantically involved with Harlow, spoke to Louis B. Mayer about buying-out her contract with Hughes and signing her to MGM, however Mayer would have none of it.

However, Raytheon ultimately purchased Hughes and is now the producer of seekers for both ASRAAM and AIM-9X.