Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wyoming, New York, Delaware, Nevada-and last week Illinois, by a 4-to-1 landslide, and Indiana, by 2-to-1, voted to ratify the 21st Amendment. Illinois, home State of the W. C. T. U. (at Evanston) had been conceded Wet since its 1931 Repeal referendum. Indiana, home of militantly Dry Senator Arthur Robinson, seat of the Northern Ku Klux Klan and of the Prohibition Party's last national convention, provided the first real test of strength of U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
...Passed a Senate bill providing for a Federal railroad coordinator, repeal of the recapture clause, a new rate-making basis and I. C. C. control of holding com-panies; sent it to conference. ¶ Adopted (177-10-54) a resolution to investigate the Civil Service Commission's apportionment of jobs on the basis of State populations, as required by law. ¶ Passed a Senate bill creating a Federal Employment Service with an office in every State and appropriating $17,500,000 for its operation over five years; sent it to conference...
...Passed a railroad emergency bill providing for: 1) a Federal coordinator to compel operating economies and eliminate duplicate service; 2) a broader rate-making basis for Interstate Commerce Commission; 3) I. C. C. control of railroad holding companies; 4) repeal of the recapture-of-excess-profits clause; sent the bill to the House...
...House: ¶ Passed a bill to repeal the gold payment clause in public and private debt contracts; sent it to the Senate (see above...
...Refrained, after brisk debate, from withdrawing from the Federal Council, and from repudiating the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry which was financed by Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. ¶ Came out for peace and disarmament, flayed Repeal and sweatshops. ¶ Elected as president Dr. William Shattuck Abernethy of Washington's Calvary Baptist Church...