Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech to the New York Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, Senator Borah said: "Everybody, except the deaf & dumb and the candidates, will be discussing it. . . . Under proper leadership the people of the United States will enforce any law which they are willing to repeal. Under proper leadership they will repeal any law which they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play the game below the intelligence and the courage and the character of the people." In a speech last week to the National Grange convention at Cleveland, Senator Borah said: "You know perfectly well that a political...
...regarding Europe's vigorous industrial attitude. But they demur at his denunciation of foreign loans. They would fight back by Europe's methods. They cannot now. They are blocked by the Sherman Anti-Trust law which forbids amalgamations likely to stifle competition. So (argued they last week) repeal the Sherman Anti-Trust law, or at least amend it to permit unification of U. S. industry to strike as a unit against similarly organized European blocs. Politics. Mark Sullivan,† able Washington
...wrote into the injunction a number of other prohibitions wanted by the company, against the unionists throwing rocks at company officials or dynamiting company land, against trespassing, loitering or even parading near company property. By any such acts, implied Judge Schoonmaker, the United Mine Workers might "hamper interstate trade." Repeal Move. The A. F. of L. convention heard all about the Schoonmaker injunction from Lee Hall, a United Mine Worker from Columbus, Ohio. Speeches were fiery in denunciation of "government by injunction. " Vice President Matthew Woll adjured his brethren to bring the issue before the country "dramatically, tragically, if necessary...
Vice President Woll advocated, and President Andrew Furuseth of the International Seamen's Union strenuously seconded, the repeal of the Sherman and Clayton Acts; the substitution of laws which would prevent industrial monopolies but not hog-tie industrial combinations...
...Premier discussed onetime Premier MacDonald's invitation to call a general election, saying that he was too sporting an opponent to hit the Labor Party until it had a stronger issue than repeal of the Trades Union...