Word: abolitionism
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The instrument of the purge, and the focus of last week's debate, was a Foot-proposed "register" of approved party organizations. Establishing such a list would permit the expulsion from Labor of members of any group not meeting certain standards of moderation. The move was aimed specifically at...
After the Dowling Report was "complete"--despite no mention of minority representation, abolition of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), reform of the Ad Board, or other items of concern to the assembly--Pearl took time off and went to Europe. She "had had it" with Harvard. But she...
The abolition of juvenile court. The juvenile court system was a proud accomplishment of the Progressive era, a largely admirable attempt to treat children in trouble with extra care and sensitivity. The experiment seems largely to have failed, having helped neither the children nor the society it was supposed to...
The recently published statement calls for an immediate halt to the manufacture of nuclear weapons and the eventual abolition of all nuclear arms. Similar to statements circulated by local secular groups such as the Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze, it reads in part, "In the name of God, let...
Opponents rallied hard as well, deluging legislators with warnings that the ERA disturbed the "divine order" and had objectionable "consequences": unisex toilets, abolition of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, homosexual marriages, a military draft for women. Their arguments evidently got a sympathetic hearing. Said Senator Norman Lamb: "I hope...