Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain that the only way to dissolve the idiocy created by a supine state legislature is to adopt with a vengeance the very same methods employed by those groups in whose interest it was to have the bill passed in the first place. In working for the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill, or at least for the political defeat of those legislators responsible for its passage, the committee may count upon the full support of most reasonable citizens. The weapons used by the patriotic organizations in forcing through this supremely silly piece of legislation should be turned against them...
...substantial number of citizens in the Commonwealth who do not see the face of Stalin at the bottom of their teacups and who see no necessity of mass-production in thinking, the opponents of the bill will have been successful. Once a virile course of action in favor of repeal has been taken there is hope that the legislators will consider the opposite side of the question. It is not too much to expect that in a country like this there are just as many intelligent people as there are members of the American Legion...
...this to be brought about except by the refusal of someone to obey it? Lastly you suggest that if the law is a poor piece of legislation, as you say is "probable", Professor Mather could "arouse public opinion to influence the State Legislature in its repeal". Is this not just what he set about to do? Bert Arenson...
...decades before Prohibition, those lifelong teetotalers John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his father gave the Anti-Saloon League their stanch moral support and $350,323.67. When he declared for Repeal in 1932, Mr. Rockefeller by no means meant that he was quitting his long war on liquor. Having despaired at last of temperance by statute, he set his agents searching the world for other methods of attack. To Russia he sent his old friend Everett Colby, a suave, engaging onetime New Jersey State Legislator and Republican National Committeeman, who captained Brown's football team when Mr. Rockefeller...
...Coca-Cola Co. Directors voted to split their stock four for one. The world's biggest maker of a 5? trademarked drink increased its profits 32% in the first year of Repeal, its stock now ranking as the highest-priced active industrial issue on the New York Stock Exchange ($244). One reason: cheap sugar. In Coca-Cola economy a 1? change in sugar prices amounts to $1.50 per share of Coca-Cola's old stock...