Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan a group of gentlemen denounced Mr. Hearst's "campaign of terrorism" as a "particularly vicious and insidious form of propaganda."* As to the anti-Red bills, said these gentlemen, if anything is needed it is repeal of existing statutes rather than enactment of new ones...
...Dealers on the run. Listen to Attorney-General Cummings, talk to the Court: "We do not suggest that it was with any glad heart that we intervened in any contractual obligations. It was done only as a matter of supreme necessity." He was referring, of course, to the repeal of the gold clause on contracts made previous to the repeal resolution. Although there is no specific clause in the Constitution which forbids Congress to impair the obligation of contract (Article one, section ten prohibits state governments to do so), the question is whether or no the Fifth Amendment forbidding Congress...
...White House got around to requesting Schenley Distilleries, which printed a big picture of the President in an advertisement on the anniversary of Repeal to cease and desist from doing so in future. Before making the request, Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early called up Alcohol Administrator Choate and found that use of the picture had not been "authorized." called up Attorney General Cummings to ask whether Schenley could not be prosecuted. In all the maze of New Deal laws the Attorney General could find none that entitled him to sue the distillers for their deed...
...Revamping of many a state's liquor laws, hastily passed after Repeal. A round dozen Governors were planning new state liquor laws...
...every town so that Alabamans could hear music. He favors good old-fashioned political oratory and haberdashery, and by their means he induced Alabama to favor him with the first re-election given any of its Governors in 33 years. He did it by promising a referendum on State Repeal, promising tax exemption on homesteads up to $3,500 value, promising to make the state toll bridges free, promising to reduce the cost of automobile licenses, promising $3,500,000 to keep the schools open, promising that the State would bear its share of relief ($24,000,000 a year...