Word: repeals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...economic recovery": 1) the bankruptcy bill to cut private debts; 2) the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway treaty; 3) the Glass banking bill; 4) the Wagner bill to increase R. F. C. relief loans; 5) farm relief, minus the "unworkable" Domestic Allotment plan; 6) the Robinson bill to repeal R. F. C. loan publicity; 7) expansion of Home Loan banks into a general mortgage discount system; 8) an arms embargo...
...Passed (289-10-121) a Senate resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment; sent it to the States for ratification (see p. n). ¶ Passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill...
...people shouldn't vote in the dark, as they did at the repeal of the Massachusetts Baby Volstead Act. The proposed amendment provides that repeal shall be approved by special conventions rather than by the state legislatures. Consequently, when the votes go to the polls they will vote for delegates only, and every voter must know definitely whether he is voting...
Continuing his remarks, Mr. Davis said that the wets have never been in the open. "We have nothing to hide," he asserted. "Have the wets given us any guarantees that the saloon will not return? The average voter should know in advance exactly what effect the repeal of Prohibition will have on his community; he must know what he will get in exchange for repeal. For us the fight has just begun...
...striking contrast to Mr. Davis's statements were the remarks made by Maleolm Greenough '25, of crusader's, Inc., on of the outstanding repeal organizations. VI heartily endorse Governor Ely's desire to have Massachusetts the first state to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. It is most encouraging to those interested in repeal to find the enactment by Congress coming so unexpectedly...