Word: repealer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week from Friday the House of Representatives' Municipal Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on a bill to repeal the underpass measure. Its sponsor, Mary B. Newman (D-Cambridge) is not optimistic about the chances for outright repeal. But she said last night that the advocates of the construction might now be satisfied with overpasses at River St. and Western Ave., since no one realized at the time of its passage that the Memorial Drive bill would become such a cause celebre...
...winsome and unclothed blonde who is a cross between Brigitte Bardot and the White Rock Girl. The company exports about 25% of its Perrier production to, among other countries, the U.S., which used to drink 6,000,000 bottles a year during Prohibition. U.S. demand for Perrier fell with repeal and the return of other liquids to choose from, but is now climbing back to half a million bottles a year...
...written agency-shop clauses into contracts covering an estimated 1,000,000 workers. But in 19 of the right-to-work states, the agency shop is now doomed. Among them, only heavily industrialized Indiana specifically permits it, and labor's only recourse in the others is outright repeal of the right-to-work laws. And while labor has managed to repeal such laws in Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine and New Hampshire since 1947, Indiana is the only state where it now has even a remote chance of success...
Many a U.S. lawyer who favors extension of the rule of law in international relations has urged that the U.S. repeal the Connally Amendment. Meanwhile, in more than 400 international treaties since the end of World War II, the signatories have committed themselves to submit any dispute arising under the treaty to the World Court. Within the past few years, France and India repealed their own versions of the Connally Amendment. Back in 1945, the committee of jurists that drafted the statutes of the new World Court declared: "It is confidently expected that the jurisdiction of this tribunal will...
...your article [Oct. 25] on antiquated, obscure laws that are still on the books, you should have noted that at the vanguard of the movement to catch up with the times is Democratic Congressman Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey. He is fighting singlehanded for repeal of the 1892 law that forbids kite and balloon flying in the District of Columbia...