Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Repeal the tax on the telegraphs, telephones and leased wires ?the last of the War-time transportation taxes...
...point I am trying to emphasize is that, since the war, the United States has developed through legislation the machinery which prevents free speech. Much of the danger to free speech has been removed by a repeal of the Espion-age Act, but the power of the postmaster general to censor what passes through the mails is still great and is used freely...
...caught in a cross-fire between the trainmen and conductors on one hand (who are asking a 12% increase in wages) and the demands of the farmers and others for lower freight rates. At the same time there will be a substantial demand in the next Congress for the repeal of the Esch-Cummins Railroad Act. All these things the railways do not relish...
...attempt to lower freight rates and to repeal the Esch-Cummins Act will be vigorously fought by the roads. They are not at all satisfied with the Act, and a few months ago were in favor of vital amendments. But under the shadow of a demand for the repeal of this Act and the substitution of less favorable legislation, the railways have rallied to its defense...
...passed by a Republican House in 1922 making English compulsory in the schools, and they turned out the Republicans who had passed it. In 1923 with a Democratic House, a Republican Senate and a French-Canadian Lieutenant Governor they failed by the narrowest of margins to secure a repeal. And they have not yet given up their attempt...