Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition reads as follows: "We the undersigned respectfully request the Harvard Student Council in behalf of the undergraduate body to take active measures to support the courageous stand taken by President Conant favoring the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill...
...nuisance value of the measure was clearly stressed by all the witnesses. President Neilson gave it its truest appraisal when he said that such legislation does more than anything else to undermine respect for the laws of the Commonwealth and the legislature that makes them. The move for repeal of the Oath Bill is a battle against obscurantism and indifference. The latter enemy, at any rate, was severely wounded yesterday by the belligerence of the Massachusetts universities, who now, no more than ever, desire to take the road to either Moscow or San Simeon...
Charging that the first steps of Fascism are involved in the Teachers Oath Bill, the Cambridge Union of University Teachers yesterday released a pamphlet stating the arguments for repeal of the bill. The booklet was prepared by a committee including Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and J. Raymond Walsh, Instructor in Economics...
...Literary Digest last week published a supplement to its main poll on approval of the New Deal (TIME, Jan. 6), showing that of 21,600 clergymen, 70% were opposed to it. This result tended to confirm the verdict of many an oldtime politician that President Roosevelt, because he backed Repeal, tolerated two divorces in his family, goes fishing on Sunday and rarely mentions God in public, will lose considerable support from the Church next autumn...
...heart attack; in Washington, D. C. The fourth Roosevelt to serve in that position (predecessors were Theodore, Theodore Jr. and Franklin D.), he was a consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated in 1919; in 1935, he lost his faith in the New Deal, bitterly attacked...