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...married couples practice the "companionate" relationship in a bootleg manner even though it is forbidden by the rules and laws of church and state. 2) To legalize certain sex education, so necessary for successful marriage, but which is now also quite generally forbidden by law. 3) To abolish the present divorce courts with all of their illegality, hypocrisy and bootlegging that is becoming a scandal and disgrace. And in place of the present divorce courts to establish an Institute of Human Relations composed of a commission of three experts, two from the medical or scientific professions and only one from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...tools of socialization, inheritance and income taxes would be boosted sky-high to break up private fortunes, reduce personal profits, abolish unearned income. Tax-exempt securities would be closed as a refuge for the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Repeal Unemployment! | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Causes of the conflict were President de Valera's attempt to abolish the Free State Dail's oath of fealty to George V (an attempt thus far blocked by the Free State Senate) and secondly Mr. de Valera's nonpayment of the so-called "Irish annuities" - sums which the pre ious Free State Government of President William Thomas Cosgrave paid to compensate absentee landlords living in Britain for their former Irish estates. From the first President de Valera offered to arbitrate this issue before a tribunal not exclusively composed of the King's subjects, and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Economic Civil War | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...good measure last week, despite the fact that the Irish Senate had blocked the. Bail's bill to abolish the oath of fealty, Finance Minister Sean MacEntee declared at Dublin: "The oath is as dead as Queen Anne!* It will never be taken again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Economic Civil War | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...Just a word on taxes. Government costs too much. We must abolish useless offices, merge . . . consolidate . . . give up. . . . I propose that government of all kinds be made solvent and that the example be set by the President and his Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jul. 11, 1932 | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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