Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McKellar of Tennessee proposed making War Hero Alvin C. York a captain. Senator Brookhart of Iowa wanted to knock out the gold standard. To make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller was the legislative ambition of Senator Sheppard of Texas. Senator Hull of Tennessee wanted to repeal tariff flexibility. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin proposed to appropriate $250,000,000 for direct unemployment relief whereas Senator Wagner of New York called for a two billion dollar bond issue for public works. Senator Kean of New Jersey would turn Muscle Shoals over to Alabama and Tennessee. A bill...
Antitrust Laws. "There is wide conviction that some change should be made. I do not favor their repeal. Particular attention should be given to industries founded upon natural resources...
...Total repeal of Prohibition...
...true that I stated repeatedly during my campaign that I thought the 18th Amendment had proved a mistake and that I was therefore in favor of its repeal and pending such action I favored any reasonable modification of the enforcement act. Since my opponent had exactly the same views, needless to say the Prohibition question was not an issue in the campaign...
...most regrettable aspects of the Manchurian tangle is the setback which it is giving to sentiment for repeal of the Japanese exclusion act. In recent years the opinion has spread that the exclusion was unnecessary, and even unjust. The notion that Japanese immigration furnished dangerous competition for American labor was gradually being dispelled. The two hundred Japanese who would be admitted yearly by the quota system could hardly disturb American labor even in the depression...