Word: repealer
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...issue on which Hansen differs most sharply with his G.O.P. predecessors (and some Democratic Governors as well) is that of federal aid, from which Wyoming in the past has recoiled as if it were a one-way pass to perdition. Last year, nonetheless, Hansen persuaded the legislature to repeal a Wyoming law that prohibited the use of state funds to match federal grants for public education (the only nay votes in either house came from Republicans). Says Hansen: "I don't stand against federal programs. My job is to make all the elements of the federal program work...
...bourbon drinker who does not like the setup is Governor Paul Johnson. Last week he urged Mississippians to repeal the prohibition law. The hypocrisy of their back-door drinking habits, he told the legislature, makes Mississippians the "laughingstock of the nation." Said Johnson: "It is high time for someone to stand boldly in the front door and talk plainly, sensibly and honestly about whisky, black-market, taxes, payola, and all of the many-colored hues that make up Mississippi's illegal aurora borealis of prohibition...
Since whisky is a high-proof issue in Mississippi, Johnson did not ask the legislators-who do their drinking in "private clubs" in Jackson-to repeal the law on their own. Instead, he asked them to authorize a referendum by March 15. Drys won the last such vote, in 1952, by 140,681 votes to 80,222. If repeal should fail this time, warned the Governor, he would be forced to "dry up this state like the Sahara...
...Massachusetts' Teachers' Loyalty Oath came under attack Wednesday, when a Salem representative introduced a motion before the Joint Committee of Education requesting its repeal...
...Michael J. Harrington (D-Salem) also urged the repeal of a similar oath which is required of public employees. He was joined in his appeal by members of the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers and of the American Jewish Conference...