Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thousand Public Enemies), he is a powerful and even petrifying publicist. But he is, as ever, a highly confusing sociologist. Formerly Author Cooper denounced Prohibition as a main root of U. S. crime. But U. S. prostitution, which he considers worse than the liquor racket, he attributes mainly to Repeal. Taverns, he says, are brothel incubators; ex-bootleggers have turned syndicate white slavers, doing business on a nationwide scale (even in trailers...
...manner of his doing it was a small thing. No small thing, however, were the circumstances that dictated the manner. The President was treading cautiously because Government economy and the "appeasement" of business (see p. 11), including the repeal of burdensome taxes, had become serious issues within his own party, even within his own Administration. Democrats who could not be ignored had taken a stand that could not be ignored. And the leader of these Democrats was that supposedly greatest of nonentities, a Vice President...
...Garner and his field marshal, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, are hopeful of achieving some concrete results when the tax bill comes before Congress. For John Garner believes in ordinary U. S. business -Wall Street excepted. If the Garner bloc can repeal taxes that business objects to, it will...
...United States can supply that restraining force. It is in her own interest to do so, for any major war on the continent will surely involve her. President Roosevelt is moving in the direction of cooperation by drawing public opinion out of its traditional isolation, by plugging for repeal of the atrociously misnamed "Peace Act" of 1937, and, yesterday, by throwing the weight of the United States behind Britain and France even more emphatically than he did by the subsequently retracted "frontier statement." Those who hope for an eventual solution of European problems without another great war will heartily applaud...
...gummed up administrative processes. The green hills of Hanover still echo with the legendary story of the town meeting--at which students formerly voted--when the college delegation pushed through a bill for the construction of a subway line to Smith. It was left to the state legislature to repeal this measure. This playful attitude toward local administration finds its prototype at Harvard and numerous other universities...