Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidates of all parties are afforded equal broadcasting facilities. As yet campaign broadcasting is comparatively young, and the larger radio station owners have not had their partisan animosities seriously aroused. But, if ever such feeling should rise in the future, the American public should resist any effort at repeal of the law as they would an abolition of equal suffrage. An impartial Communications Commission should become as firm an American institution as the Bill of Rights...
...President's recommendation, the Senate repealed the three acts in 60 seconds, without a roll call. Next day the House, after an hour's half-hearted debate, voted 165-to-5 for repeal...
...Congress President Roosevelt sent a message advising repeal of: 1) the Bankhead Act, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the Potato-Control Act, which Washington has assumed would be found unconstitutional as soon as the Supreme Court got around to them. The President's reason for repeal: They are now useless having been "auxiliary" to the late...
...December 1933, millions of citizens were sampling Repeal liquor for the first time. Same month, for the third time, at Decatur Negro Patterson heard himself condemned to death by a jury of twelve white men (TIME...
...idea were already calling on Congressmen to advocate other proposals. One group wanted to take 30% of customs receipts to subsidize exports. Another group advocated guaranteeing farmers their cost of production. A third group demanded enactment of the domestic allotment plan; a fourth, export debentures, higher agricultural tariffs, repeal of the reciprocal trade treaty law; a fifth, dollar tinkering. Restive Congressmen declared that they were unwilling to vote for an AAA substitute that would be of doubtful constitutionality. Senator Norris mournfully declared that any law attempting to regulate agriculture would now be unconstitutional. The chairmen of the House and Senate...