Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railways. The President is expected to veto any repeal or material modification of the present railroad act should such action pass the next Congress...
...York State's recent repeal of its prohibition enforcement law the assembly declared: "This action, and any other act of nullification, merits the indignation of true Americans everywhere and presages early political oblivion for its perpetrators...
Another legislative panacea for the conduct of the banking business went glimmering with the repeal by the State Government of Oklahoma of its previous law requiring banks organized under the laws of that state to create a fund which would permit all banks to guarantee each other's deposits. All banks contributed to the fund, and when a bank failed the fund was used to pay off all its depositors in full. This plan largely originated with Senator Owen; it has been urged for adoption by banks in other states, too. Bank failures were to be rendered forever harmless...
...bill will be introduced in the Georgia Legislature when it assembles on June 27 to repeal the State's prohibition...
Governor Smith of New York, who signed the repeal of his state's prohibition law, went to Chicago and denied that he would be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. In Chicago he conferred with George E. Brennan, leader of Illinois Democrats, and then went to French Lick, where he visited with " Tom" Taggart, boss of Indiana Democrats...