Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause of the Interstate Commerce Act. This clause makes it illegal to charge less for, say, a haul over the same route between Chicago and Pittsburgh (471 mi.) than between Chicago and Cleveland (340 mi.) In competition with trucks and steamships which are not thus...
...took some time to shake the Harvard Administration loose from its stand for full-fledged chaperones, and reactions after repeal of that law forced another rule saying no girl should visit a College room without the accompaniment of at least one feminine sympathizer. It must have taken considerable argument to bring them around to believing a "third-party" roommate would be able to handle the policing job satisfactorily...
...over Mr. Getty's opposition, an amendment was passed which changed the terms of directors. President William Francis Humphrey and three others were re-elected for three-year terms, biggest Stockholder Getty for a single year. At the 1936 stockholders' meeting, Mr. Getty tried to secure the repeal of the three-year term for directors and defeat two other amendments sponsored by the management which he considered inimical to stockholders' rights. According to lean, curly-haired Mr. Getty, President Humphrey and nine other Tide Water directors besides himself and Mr. Grimm controlled only...
ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...
Originally passed by a vote of 130 to 94, and attempt to repeal the law in the last session was voted down...