Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whittlesey ("Clare") Mendell, 53, unexpectedly announced that he would retire with President James Rowland Angell in June. Yaleman Mendell, who succeeded famed, crusty Frederick Scheetz Jones in 1927 and has since done a notable job in modernizing Yale's course requirements and in adjusting New Haven life to Repeal, explained that he wanted to get back to his other Yale work as Dunham Professor of Latin Language & Literature and master of Branford College. An Oxford-trained classicist of the old school, Professor Mendell is noted for his knowledge of Tacitus, his ability to translate the Epistles of Horace...
...third time in as many years the Legislative Committee on Education yesterday reported against the Teacher's Oath Law, this time favoring repeal by a vote of nine to five. This decision represents an advance over last year's count, where repeal triumphed by a single vote, and the likeli-hood of the House following the Committee's lead is far greater than before...
Other educational leaders as well as organized labor groups have participated actively in favor of repeal. With feeling running high against the law, and no logical foundation for its adoption in the first place, the Massachusetts legislature will do its duty only by a graceful acceptance of public opinion and the results of its Committee's investigations...
...joint resolution called for repeal of that portion of Nevada's Constitution which prohibits lotteries. When young Assemblyman J. E. Sweatt of Washoe County arose to argue against it, the measure's friends called him a "long beard." When he returned to the attack wearing false whiskers (see cut), they silenced him by voting to have any legislator with a beard of more than six inches taken out by the sergeant-at-arms and shaved...
...Union, we were amazed to find that by his own admission that he had never seen the Teachers' Oath Bill, or a copy thereof, nor was he apparently aware of the existence of Section 11A of the said act. Many of the petitioners who sheepishly signed the petition for repeal frankly admitted that they had no knowledge of the contents of the bill...