Word: repealer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would provide Pierre with a significant head start over G.O.P. Opponent George Murphy, the retired movie-man, and Pierre can use the help. Though he is still the heavy favorite, Salinger has identified himself as a champion of the controversial antidiscrimination Rumford Fair Housing Act. A current battle to repeal it has stirred such soaring passion in Califor nia that he could conceivably become the victim of a white protest vote. At any rate, Pierre would now be able to campaign as the incumbent, with three months of seniority to lay before the voters...
...state legislature in 1965 to reverse its 1962 decision ordering the construction of three underpasses along the tree-lined parkway. The Committee will attempt to mobilize public opinion in areas outside Greater Boston, and thus to bring pressure to bear on the legislators from these areas to vote for repeal...
Prime Minister George Papandreou's lure for leftist support in last February's national elections was a pledge to repeal anti-Communist legislation en acted between 1946 and 1949 when Communist guerrillas tried to seize power. Sure enough, Papandreou's Cen ter Union, having garnered 173 seats in Greece's 300-member Parliament, rammed through a bill to free most Communist prisoners convicted of sedition and murder, abolish political deportations, and deprive the police of power to withhold work permits on political grounds...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. Goldwater's vote against the civil rights bill set this up as the key issue. If there is to be a major platform battle, Laird believes that it will be between Goldwater delegates who insist that the party advocate repeal of parts of the new bill and moderates who may propose much tougher measures than are included in the bill. Already, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, the Scranton spokesman on the Platform Committee, has urged a flat statement that the party considers the bill constitutional, which would go directly against Goldwater's declaration...
...boost Social Security cash benefits by roughly 5%. Maximum family benefit would be increased gradually to $300 a month, and individual benefit would go up to $143, the rise financed by a slightly higher tax on employers and employees. >Voted, 77 to 2, in a lively Senate session, to repeal the 10% federal excise taxes on a vast variety of consumer items ranging from cosmetics, handbags and luggage to mechanical pencils and pingpong balls. > Overrode, in a House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, the decade-old dictatorship of Chairman Otto Passman, a Louisiana Democrat whose only particular claim to fame...