Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressional opposition, Franklin Roosevelt once again went to the rescue of Wyoming's mountain-hemmed Jackson Hole. Two years ago by executive order, he made Jackson Hole a national monument after Congress had refused to make it a national park. Now he firmly vetoed a bill to abolish it as a monument...
...last fight over Jackson Hole has not yet been fought. As the 79th Congress convened, Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney readied a new bill, which would abolish the Presidential right to create national monuments by executive order...
General Chen was making a spectacular start as War Minister. He announced his determination to abolish thousands of the 20,394 sub-organizations of the National Military Council. He laid plans to train 30 to 40 divisions in 1945, to equip each of them with U.S. artillery. Whereas each Chinese army now comprised three understrength divisions, Chen planned armies built of four full-strength, "square" divisions of four regiments each...
India. Sir Chunilal B. Mehta hoped that U.S. businessmen would not support a U.S. international policy that subsidizes exports of U.S. surplus cotton while the U.S. exhorts other nations to abolish similar artificial stimulants to their foreign trade (see Government...
...official dishonesty: "Blackhearted officials are desperately extorting money and are desperately doing harm to the people. Putting them to death does not abolish their guilt. . . . Salaries of officials should be sufficient to keep them honest...