Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (231 to 113) a bill which would repeal the clause of the Revenue Act of 1936 under which salaries of officers & employes of corporations in excess of $15,000 per annum were made public by the Treasury Department, sent it to the Senate...
...Passed (277 to 119) the anti-lynching bill introduced by Representative Gavagan, in whose New York district lies Manhattan's black Harlem, after a three-day debate. Sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed (268 to 120) the Pettengill Bill which would repeal the long-&-short-haul clause of the Interstate Commerce Commission Act, permit railroads to charge less for a long haul than the aggregate rates between intermediate points. Sent it to the Senate where a similar bill died in committee last session...
Almost all U. S. colleges have some kind of rule to regulate drinking, but last week the University of Pennsylvania decided to enforce one. Since Repeal, liquor has flowed freely in Penn's fraternity houses and four have cropped out with bars. Because 31 of the houses have been transferred to University ownership to escape taxes, they fall under a University rule which prohibits drinking on University property. This year the Interfraternity Council, at the suggestion of Penn's administration, circulated a questionnaire which revealed that not one fraternity house was dry. As the University announced last week...
...President's claim that an amendment would take too long, asked the Dean, what about calling State conventions such as ratified the 21st (Repeal) Amendment in less than ten months? Better yet, he demanded, why could Congress not set a national date for elections to the conventions, a national date for the conventions themselves, thus get the whole business over with in less time than it would probably take to get .the President's bill through Congress...
...years the constitution of Kansas has forbidden the sale of intoxicating beverages. Since Federal Repeal, however, Kansas has had no law defining what constitutes an intoxicating beverage. For three years juries have with a few exceptions held that alcoholic beer and ale, widely sold in Kansas, were in fact soft drinks. For three years outraged Drys have loudly demanded a law to make their prohibition constitution work. Last week a prohibition law was finally put upon the statute books of Kansas...