Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the Harvard chapter, Edward Everett, wrote a letter to Mr. Justice Story, in which he stated: "Several friends with whom I have conversed, think it expedient wholly to drop the affectation of secrecy. . . One gentleman thinks the Society useless, & that it would be best to abolish it altogether; & I should be of this opinion, unless such a liberal change can be made in the terms of admission & membership as to made it a comprehensive fraternity of the children & friends of the College. . ." At the special meeting which followed, John Quincy Adams moved "That in the admission...
Although there have been efforts on the part of the Corporation to abolish the Varsity Club training tables for members of athletic teams and have the men eat in the Houses there will be no change made in the arrangement this year. The matter was given a thorough airing at the stated meeting of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports on Monday night but it was decided then to maintain a resolution made last Spring which decided for the continuance of the Varsity Club tables for at least another year...
...created is that land and the profits from it belong to all living people equally. He advocated the State's ownership of land (exclusive of improvements on it). Rent would be paid in proportion to the land's value, and this rent (or single tax) would be sufficient to abolish all other taxes...
Bernard W. ("Barney") Snow, G. O. P. leader of Cook County and a director of the new Federation, declared that, though nonpartisan, the Federation would work politically to abolish the Federal Farm Board and 79 other Governmental agencies competing with private business. The Federation pledged itself to "put an end to the undermining of the principles of American government by the encroachment of Socialism and Communism...
...they must get the War Department's barge line off the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers, stop Federal production of hydroelectric power at Muscle Shoals, turn its river-&-harbor digging over to private hands. Other governmental activities which, as "private business," the F. of A. B. would have to abolish: printing by one of the biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board's fleet;* helium production for the Navy by the Bureau of Mines; Post Office banking...