Word: repeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearings on the Teachers Oath Law thus far had been at all times lively, to say the least. But it was the hearings for repeal which began in March, 1936 that were really characterized by the circus tempo associated with the Teacher's Oath controversy. The Boston Herald reported they "were probably the most noisy and colorful in State House history." Gaetano Salvemini, then Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, could scarcely be heard at a session March 18 because of the uproar, part of which was in his support and most own which was against...
...principle object of McDermott's attack was J. Raymond Walsh, an instructor in Economics who had been active in labor relations work. This activity at the time made him suspect of communist leanings. A bill for repeal passed the General Court but was vetoed by Governor Hurley on the grounds that the era was not one for "withdrawing the authority of the state...
Four successive attempts at repeal were made by educators and sympathetic citizens in the four successive years, but all failed. With the coming of war the issue became submerged...
...with the rest of the U.S. They argued, and correctly, that if farm markets were sick, then the U.S. was unhealthy at its core. They did not get parity written into law until after the New Deal moved in with its valise full of devices to repeal the law of supply & demand. That was the day of Henry Agard Wallace's "planned scarcity," which killed little pigs and plowed under cotton, and the "ever-normal granary," which made loans on surplus grains and stored them for possible years of paucity...
Since the war Henri and Isabelle have spent most of their time in Portugal, rearing their children and trying in vain to make a 150-acre farm pay profits. When he heard the news of the Law of Exile's repeal, Henri said: "I intend to settle down in la douce France for good. I want to go first to my family's old Chateau d'Amboise, where I hope to live with my wife and children." Henri's friends in Paris shook their heads in contemplation of the ancient royal chateau's lack...