Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Belasco were among his clientele. Prohibition nearly ruined Henri, drove him in disgust back to France. Repeal brought him back again. Last year he opened his present restaurant in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan...
...voted against: Democratic Tariff bills (1932, 1934), Wartime Income Tax rates (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1932), 30-Hour Week (1933), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), NIRA (1933), AAA (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), Stock Exchange Control (1934), Silver Amendment (1954), Confirming Dr. Tugwell...
...unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help groups; to exempt from taxation the first $1,000 assessed valuation of homes and farms occupied by owners; to repeal the State sales tax, substituting income and increased bank and inheritance taxes. Having done the best they could to make EPIC palatable to the rank-&-file of the party, Messrs. Creel & McAdoo ducked out of Sinclair's victory banquet. Mr. Creel headed for Washington, Mr. McAdoo for Mexico. Neither has gone back...
...State law. Since half the men in the Houses are minors, half of the market is immediately curtailed. Friends will not separate for meals, and the red tape involved in proving one's age tends to make a pleasure a burden. Secondly, beer was advocated before the repeal of Prohibition when 3.2 brew first became legal. The enthusiasm with which undergraduates greeted the harder liquors took away from the attractions of beer. And last of all, beer has failed to catch Harvard's fancy. This may be due to the age restrictions or the cheapness of beer elsewhere...
...civil service rules, should be taken as fair evidence of the temper of public opinion. They realize that no government can restrict involving the expenditure of over six billion dollars a year while the revenue barely totals four billions. Cognizant of the fact that no legislative process can repeal the old law of supply and demand, they find it impossible to support policies involving the fixing of prices on both agricultural and manufactured products, and the arbitrary establishment of minimum wages. Profits are recognized by many as essential to business progress and so they refuse to support the government...