Word: abolishing
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...chief reason for making this change, according to officials of the H.A.A., was the difficulty of securing suitable opponents. Yale was the only other college with a 150-pound team which the lightweights met last year, and under the plan recently announced at New Haven, Yale will abolish this team in 1933. Three other colleges in the country, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Villanova, none of which were on the Harvard schedule because of their location outside of New England, have corresponding teams. The decision of the H.A.A. will go into effect at once, so that there will be no team next...
...Received from Minnesota's Maas a bill to abolish first and some second class postmasterships for economy and efficiency's sake. In each office the No. 1 civil service employe would be put in charge. ¶ Received from Illinois' Britten a bill to militarize the Administration of Hawaii under the Army or Navy. ¶ Defeated (228-to-169) a resolution to bring up a bill legalizing 2.75% beer...
Good or bad, the MacEntee budget pleased the Laborites whose support keeps President de Valera in power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...
...When it is proved that the British Parliament and the Canadian Parliament cannot abolish their oaths if they choose, then and then only I will begin to think there may be some basis for Mr. Thomas' remarks." Three weeks ago Britain's House of Commons voted down 294-10-4 a British Laborite proposal to abolish its oath to George V (TIME...
Intent on driving out of the Irish Free State the oath of allegiance to King George, President Eamon de Valera was heartened last week by news that in London the House of Commons was squabbling over a bill to abolish its own Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty...