Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Editor Hall meant it. However, to reassure Dothan whites, he explained that all he wanted was a test case on his right to advocate sedition or anything else. Then he sat back to wait for the police. The police never arrived because the Legislature had already moved to repeal the offending antisedition bill. It had, furthermore, put through a bill drafted by Editor Hall and sponsored by Dothan's Representative, exempting newspaper men from contempt of court sentences when they refuse to reveal news sources in judicial investigations. Several States have similar laws in behalf of the Press...
Shortly after Repeal Julius Kessler returned to Manhattan with his bull terrier Roxy and his bullfinch Dickie, there passed his 80th birthday. Still sleek and jolly, he was observed stuffing pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut, running down a street after a taxi, dancing until 5 a. m. on New Year...
Last of the great pre-Repeal gangsters left alive or at liberty is blank-faced, chicken-hearted Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy-game racket. "The cooler ain't never so cold as the morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...
...village store and bought some groceries. Snarled the storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session of the Legislature to repeal Arkansas' new 2% sales tax, Governor Junius Marion Futrell fled to Hot Springs, hopped into a steam bath, cried: "It's cooler in this box than it was at the Capitol...
Last month Publisher Marks gave the genial oldster who is featured on such nostalgic occasions as the advent of Repeal a song title, told him to write a waltz to it. Metz went home, scratched out a tune on his violin. Last week his waltz, There's A Secret in My Heart, was publicly sung for the first time by Dale Wimbrow on the Eskimo Pie program over the NBC Blue Network. Theodore Metz was introduced to the radio audience. His latest song turned out to be "corny," smooth, banal. Publisher Marks predicted success for it. But many...