Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ways & Means Committee last week were mostly pleased but unsatisfied. They argued that the revisions did not go far enough, that the principle of the profits tax as well as the tax itself should be safely buried forever. Typical was one witness's remark: "Nothing short of repeal, we think, will give business the confidence it needs...
...White House conference day later cagey News Reporter John O'Donnell jockeyed incident Roosevelt into openly denouncing the press subsidy by the Government as an "unhealthy thing." Grinning, the President suggested that the press might well campaign for repeal of the 90-year-old subsidy, originally enacted to promote distribution of newspapers and magazines, uplift educational and moral standards. In 24 hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation...
...first New Deal officials to come out for balancing the budget. Last week he announced that he still favored a balanced budget but that it could be obtained now only by increased taxes, which would be deflationary; so would any cut in Government expenditures; so, too, would be repeal of the undistributed profits tax which now obliges corporations to declare most of their profits in dividends...
Third on the list is repeal of the Teachers' Oath Law which failed to secure the signature of Governor Hurley last year. The Child Labor Amendment and amending the State Workmen's Compensation Act are also salient issues of the campaign...
...conference is being organized to check reactionaries who are "mobilizing their forces to further block the will of the people." Veto of the Oath repeal bill is cited as an example...