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Peabody's other proposed constitutional amendments provide a four-year term for the governor instead of the present two years; abolition of the Governor's Council that was established in 1790; limiting the legislative session to six months; and an increase in home rule for cities and towns in the...
It was as if he had never been away. Crowds saw the same disheveled hair, rumpled suit, and sweeping gestures, and heard the same messianic utterances. He promised them economic reform, abolition of large landholdings, curbs on foreign investments. "This is the campaign for the redemption of S?o Paulo...
"The foundation of New Testament Christianity is being destroyed," Evangelist Billy James Hargis bellowed into the mike at the Fourth Annual National Convention of his anti-Communist Christian Crusade last week in Tulsa. "God is being attacked from every quarter. Although life under Communism would mean the abolition of worship...
Harvey admitted, however, that no politician would ever support abolition of the "draft gravy train" which provides office jobs for hundreds of civilians.
A noted radio news commentator had called for the abolition of the draft and the conversion of the nation's 4,000 draft boards into army recruiting centers.