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...Abolish all wage and salary controls...
...Dismiss 1,700 employees of the Wage Stabilization Committee, and eventually abolish the jobs of 6,000 other controllers...
This whole experience proved that Communist sympathizers can infiltrate any large-scale bureau, regardless of the party affiliation or accent of its Secretary. Therefore, there must be a major change--more than the petty dabbling done so far. The only sure protection is to abolish the Department as it is now and transfer its functions to a small group of men of known loyalty. Fortunately the State Department lends itself to such improvement. Its only proper functions, making policy and telegraphing orders out to foreign governments, could be better performed by a small council anyway...
Time & again, 20th century Britons have tried to amend or abolish the Quiet Sunday Laws, only to find themselves up against a coalition of fond tradition and the Lord's Day Observance Society, a body which is resolutely led by 71-year-old Herbert Henry Martin, known all over Britain as "Misery" Martin...
With the principal's blessing, Barbara launched an earnest campaign through high-income Shades Valley. In the parent-teacher associations of four elementary schools, she found receptive audiences. After listening to her testimony, parents of children who will soon enter Shades Valley High voted 512 to 96 to abolish the Greek-letter groups...