Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeal of the forty-hour week by decreelaw, and the military suppression of labor's right to strike, were not the methods a democratic premier should have chosen. He and the present deputies were elected one the pledge to uphold labor's demand for a forty-hour week; Daladier later reversed his own stand; but he had no right to change the nation's mind by coercion...
...over the proposed California chain-store tax in 1936, which the chains defeated by a mighty publicity and advertising campaign. Colorado has had a chain-store tax since 1934 and last week it came up for referendum. Despite another mighty publicity and advertising barrage, Colorado voted No to repeal...
...inevitable that if the miserable failure of repeal to approximate a solution of the liquor problem is not recognized and steps immediately taken, an outburst of public indignation will surely result. Massachusetts, for example, saw in 1937 a 40 per cent increase of its evening automobile accidents, with increases in arrests for drunkenness corresponding. Figures for 1938 show that the condition is becoming worse. If prohibition failed to squelch Mr. Barleycorn, surely repeal has sent him off on one whopper of a bender...
...prohibition societies are already springing up, armed with new crusading vigor, and intent upon running him once and for all out of the land. Then, doubtless, the vicious circle would revolve once more: prohibition would be incomplete, would result in widespread contempt for law and a demand for repeal; then, when repeal was once more obtained, it would again prove wholly untenable and rouse such public indignation as to lead back to prohibition. At no time would the problem of liquor control be satisfactorily solved...
President Conant led the fight two years ago to repeal the law with a personal plea before the House committee on education. After passing in both houses of the State Legislature the measure to remove the existing statute was vetoed by Governor Hurley...