Word: repeals
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Since 1929. when Iowa passed a law making compulsory the testing of all cattle for tuberculosis, Iowa farmers have waged a vain fight to have the law repealed. Their objections real and fancied: 1) the State pays only part of the value of the condemned cattle; 2) the injection marks suggest that healthy cattle are infected, fail to identify those incurably infected; 3) it causes cows to have abortions instead of calves. Many farmers have also expressed dislike of Dr. Peter Malcolm, State veterinarian. Last spring 2,000 farmers marched to the State Capitol at Des Moines and demanded repeal...
Susan was the eldest daughter of a farm laborer whose lot had fallen on evil times. In England of the early igth Century, before the repeal of the Corn Laws, labor was cheap, food dear; the poor got poorer steadily. Susan's parents read the Bible but had never heard of birth control: their steadily increasing family were just so many Acts of God. Susan's mother died in childbed, her father came to a bad end in a wayside ditch. Susan and the rest of them went on the parish, but she and her sister Tamar soon...
...biggest Oklahoma operators. Oilman Sinclair was accused of exerting a "monopolistic control" on the State's oil industry, of trying to "overthrow the State Government and overawe its legislators," of "filching from the school children's legacy" and intriguing to have Governor Murray impeached because he blocked repeal of the State's oil laws. Retorted Oilman Sinclair: "If the absurdity and injustice of the Governor's proclamation is not clear to all, anything I might say about it would be wasted breath. All the proclamations and troops in the world can't add one cent...
...chamber when a great babble of dissent erupted. Politicos were openly resentful, began to threaten dreaded noncooperation with the Governor General which would tie the Islands' legislative affairs into hard knots. Mr. Davis had recommended a long-term public works program ("Pork is an unsound foundation for roads"), repeal of the anti-trust laws, leasing of public lands for cultivation, private ownership of communications. But such hostility and displeasure were created by his message that it seemed unlikely that any of his recommendations would be executed by the Legislature. U. S. citizens in Manila blamed this development in part...
...English law was enacted providing that anyone discovering a theatre open on Sunday might, as a "common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday-showing Capitol Theatre (cinema) in London with a suit. Last week to all cinemen's dismay, a court awarded Miss Orpen $15,000. But the court was dismayed too. It also awarded the Capitol a stay of execution. Planned were appeal and repeal...