Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressure for the repeal of the Neutrality Act has been tremendous, and Congress should act on this demand at its first chance. Then Germany and its cohorts will have been warned that America will not watch one man steal, without chastisement, the whole of Central Europe." (September...
Nobel and Nine Secretaries. He kept nine secretaries busy, dictating his 3,500 articles, speeches and books, campaigning for repeal of prohibition, against the child-labor amendment, for the League of Nations and the Republican Party. For his plodding conservatism, leftists were apt to regard him as a kind of American Blimp. His memberships and honors took up four times as much space in Who's Who as Franklin Roosevelt's. In 1931, for his work as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Butler shared a Nobel prize with Jane Addams...
Luckman had already had an offer which applied more directly. It came from the nation's poultry-growers, still battling against poultryless Thursdays. In return for repeal of the ban, they promised that they would cut their poultry flocks enough to save an estimated 56 million bushels of grain...
...appear a long way apart. CIO's president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...
...Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...