Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who wanted to abolish congressional power to investigate were trying to bore a hole in the boat to let the water out. Since they were first borrowed from the British Parliament, congressional investigations had proved to be a useful weapon. A Senate committee headed by Tom Walsh had uncovered the scandal brewed in Teapot Dome. Out of the Pecora investigation of Wall Street had come the Securities and Exchange Commission; out of the Senate War Investigating Committee had come the exposure of war-profiteering Representative Andy...
General Chamberlin, it was learned, recommended that the U.S. 1) increase its military aid at least to the point of assigning U.S. officers as advisers to Greek division commanders, and 2) abolish the special mission to Greece and concentrate the entire U.S. effort under one man. As between MacVeagh and Griswold, General Chamberlin recommended MacVeagh...
Overwhelming response to the Student Council's poll on seating distribution resulted in a four to one vote to abolish the all male cheering section, Council representative Partrick D. Dailey '50 reported last night after final tabulation...
...more than the church to keep young people off the streets and out of the saloon bar. Perhaps gangster films have led to some increase in juvenile crime, but the normal child cheers the forces of the law.... It is no part of the church's duty to abolish occasions of temptation to the few if their general effect is salutary. Gangster films bring the element of adventure into the drab routine of a city...
...President Paasikivi knew the Kremlin would not stand for it, and the Finnish delegation stayed home. Despite this, U.S.-Finnish trade has continued to thrive. The Finns hoped that Russia was not preparing to demand heavy imports on top of reparations-a move which would surely diminish (or even abolish) their trade with...