Word: repealer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, many who really oppose repeal have begun to direct their efforts at getting the inevitable bill watered down. The Times of London put the whole business in perspective: "The whole purpose of abolishing price maintenance is that the inefficient shall be hurt. This may seem harsh. But the facts of modern economic life are harsh...
Whitlock said that he would represent the University at the hearing. Three bills will be discussed: two would delay construction on the underpasses, the other would repeal entirely the act authorizing their construction...
...emerging in a form that would have endangered its prospects of quick Senate approval. Committee Republicans were angered when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long rammed through an amendment that cut some $30 million off a proposed $80 million increase in taxes on oil companies. They retaliated by passing amendments to repeal some $445 million in excise taxes on luggage, jewelry, cosmetics and furs...
Sweeping Reversal. Johnson, worried that the unexpected loss of all of these minor taxes would invite countless other Senators to propose their own pet repeal ideas in Senate debate and unbalance the whole package, expressed his "deep concern" to Byrd and other committee members. With one sweeping motion, the committee then reversed its action on all of the excise taxes, thus restoring them. The vote was 9 to 8, with Byrd backing Johnson. Also lost was a proposed repeal of the 10% theater admissions tax. But the $50 million hike in oil-firm taxes survived. The house has voted...
McCann concurred that the chances for repeal were negligible, since it would be easy to strangle Mrs. Newman's bill with State House red tape. "We've got them up the stream with no paddle," he said...