Word: repealer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They will urge the passage of three bills that would either postpone construction or repeal the original legislation authorizing the Metropolitan District Commission to build the underpasses. The underpass foes will plead their case in Room $36 of the State House at a hearing begining...
...Medical School professors have sponsored a bill in the Massachusetts Legislature which would repeal an 1847 obscenity law prohibiting the dissemination of information about birth control...
Opponents of the underpasses are confident that construction will not begin until the legislature has had a chance to act on three bills that would either subject the matter to new study or repeal the 1962 legislation authorizing the MDC to build the underpasses...
...Democrat Roger D. Branigin stepped into his first term as Governor, whipped through a seven-minute inaugural address, followed next day with a legislative message that lasted all of 14 minutes. Apparently as tight fiscally as he is verbally, Branigin moved against the trend, urged the Democratic legislature to repeal some $40 million in state and local taxes over the next two years...
...employment contracts if Kuwait stayed dry. Several influential Kuwaitis have applied to remote countries for posts as honorary consuls, hoping thereby to qualify for diplomatic liquor privileges. Many of the thirsty began flocking to Basra in Iraq, 100 miles from Kuwait City. Their pilgrimage has also produced agitation for repeal of the law from their weekend widows left behind. They fear that the forced-draft drinking by the boys and the wiles of the women of Basra may prove a dangerously combustible...