Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole it seems both unwise and ungrateful of you not to cooperate in this great effort to abolish "hidden" taxes, which supposedly would result in reducing the price ot the world's most informative magazine...
...swept away once a Labor Cabinet with a big majority gets in, have done nothing to block such a development. Again by virtual unanimity last week the Margate Conference resolutioned in favor of "reforms" calculated to deprive the House of Commons or any other authority of ability ever to abolish the House of Lords...
Whereas Mr. Baldwin has been pleasantly vague about World economic recovery by the lifting of trade barriers some day, Mr. Chamberlain declared : "All indications are that we have left free trade behind forever, or until the whole world agrees to abolish tariffs on imports, which comes to pretty much the same thing...
Next day the late Governor whose platform was "The Capitalistic system has failed and immediate steps must be taken to abolish it," was saluted thus by President Roosevelt: "The nation has lost a personality of singular force and courage. . . . Year by year since he assumed the Governorship of a great commonwealth he had become a more massive figure in our national life...
...courtroom, while Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey questioned them on the details of their occupation (TIME, May 25). No old-fashioned vice trial was this. The prosecutor had been appointed at the request of New York's Governor Lehman, not to wipe out an ancient profession but to abolish rackets. Lucania and his prosperous executives had terrorized a large section of the city's dealers in flesh, had put prostitution on a chain-store basis...