Word: ban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration-Dodd bill, first introduced in March 1965, would ban all interstate gun sales and forbid over-the-counter sales of pistols to out-of-state residents. The NRA moved to support a slightly tightened version of the original Dodd bill, now introduced by Sen. Roman H. Hruska...
...three years, the Administration bill kicked around in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Only last week, after the assassination of The Rev. Martin Luther King, was a weakened version of the bill reported out. The weakened version--halfway between the NRA-supported bill and the Administration bill--would ban mail order sales of pistols, but would place no controls over the mail order sale of rifles...
...Dixiecrats at the 1948 convention and who managed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill past a Southern filibuster has become the vice-president who said the Riot Commission's conclusion "is open to some challenge." And the visionary statesman who first proposed the Peace Corps and who pushed the test-ban treaty has been the Vice-president who was a leading spokesman for his Administration...
Vermonters did not make up their minds easily. Before passage, the bill faced a mini-filibuster in the legislature while anguished outdoor admen argued that the billboard ban would boomerang on business. Governor Philip H. Hoff, a Democrat and a staunch supporter of the legislation, contended that, on the contrary, "by making our highways more attractive, we will improve business...
...greatest tourist asset: its unspoiled wooded hills and valleys. Although one letter to the editor insisted that "good billboards are beautiful and break the monotony of a long motor trip," citizen mail to editors and legislators ran as much as 30-to-l in favor of the ban. Crucial to the passage the bill was the support by the host of organizations most dependent on out-of-state visitors, including the Vermont Ski Operators and the Green Mountain Motel Association. In fact, the Stowe Area Association, even before the signing of the bill, began voluntarily by removing...