Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School as he took his place in the military parade to the Capitol. There he led the other new State officers, all Republican, inside where Chief Justice William M. Maltbie administered the oath of office. Immediately Governor Cross began his inaugural address in which he aggressively pleaded for a repeal of the 18th Amendment, larger veto powers, increased authority for the Public Utilities Commission. Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village parson...
...have Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, at a future date, answer six questions anent Prohibition. Last week Mr. Edison declared: "[Senator Dwight Whitney] Morrow knows nothing of the business and industrial world. For many years he has been cooped up in an office, away from the workingman. When he demands Repeal he doesn't know what he's talking about. . . . Prohibition is eternally correct. And even if the 18th Amendment is lost, the people will battle...
I.C.C. Most startling, most important of the Commission's eleven recommendations in its report was that for the repeal of the recapture clause of the Transportation Act of 1920. Under this provision the I.C.C. was authorized to take one-half of a carrier's profits in excess of 5.75% and deposit them in a Federal fund for the use of weaker roads. So bitterly have the roads fought recapture in the courts (the famed O'Fallon case turned on it [TIME, May 29, 1929]) that the Commission has collected only a scant...
...There are a number of questions which, if time does not permit action, I recommend should be placed in consideration . . . for subsequent action." Here the President briefly outlined the following subjects: 1) regulation of interstate electrical power; 2) consolidation of railways; 3) revision of the anti-Trust laws; 4) repeal of the capital-gains tax; 5) further restriction of immigration; 6) strengthening the deportation laws; 7) building of postoffices; 8) equalization of veterans' allowances; 9) Federal aid to State child health services...
President Firor is delighted with the beer & ham campaign, plans to use it throughout the land. He has selected the Woman's Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment as the organization to which the Gobel anti-Prohibition contributions go. He would not say last week how much cash each can of hash would yield...