Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendments offered. They can't be expected to offer amendments when they don't understand the bill." The tax proposals which President Roosevelt sent to Congress in March were aimed at two major ends: 1) Radical reform and simplification of the complex U. S. tax system by repeal of existing corporate taxes, substitution of a tax to be paid by corporations on their undistributed incomes, plus normal income tax to be paid by individual stock-holders on their dividends...
...attack the New Deal. Witnesses-of-the-week were Fred George Clark, Ohio oilman who leads The Crusaders, and Secretary Earley Vernon Wilcox of the Farmers' Independence Council of America. From Crusader Clark the Senators got the story of his organization, founded to fight Prohibition, continued after Repeal to agitate for Constitutionalism, Sound Money, Balanced Budget, and the defeat of "the forces destroying liberty and individual freedom." From Dr. Wilcox the Senators learned how the Farmers' Independence Council, equally opposed to Government bounties and crop curtailment, was founded in Washington a year ago at a meeting called...
...recent hearings on the bill to repeal the Teachers' Oath Law in Massachusetts have proved the efficacy of the oath in turning college professors into rebels--a result the reactionary legislators could hardly have intended. A veritable War of Independence was fought with all of Boston either taking part or looking on. Broadsides of passion, eloquence, logic, ridicule were all fired at the law by the biggest of academic shots. But despite this unanimous support of the repeal bill, it is still in committee, and both the temper of the hearings and the composition of the House make its adoption...
Representatives Dillon and Dorgan led the fight against repeal in the House yesterday, Dorgan flaying the teachers who took the oath originally with reservations...
...specific bill on which the House voted was one on petition by the Massachusetts Council of Teachers Unions of the American Federation of Labor asking for repeal of the Oath Bill. The original bill was passed...