Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, in less than half an hour, voted yesterday to repeal 57 wartime statutes--ranging from the law empowering the President to censor communications with foreign countries, to his authority to employ $1-a-year...
Legislation which would repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill was introduced by 15 senators, including two Republicans, yesterday, sponsored primarily by Senators Pepper and Wagner...
...proposal reads, "The undersigned men hereby formally petition the repeal of the unreasonable Lowell House summer rule that coats be worn in the dining hall on these sweltering summer days." The words "unreasonable Lowell" have been crossed out in pencil...
Gandhi mobilized local Indians for his first civil disobedience campaign. They won repeal of some anti-Indian laws from an obstinate South African Government. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to Bombay, the hero of India...
...Paint the Joint Red." Just after Repeal, Billy was hired (at $1,000 a week) by an underworld syndicate, backed by some of the more distinguished members of the Brooklyn Beer Gang, to run a big Broadway nightspot called the Casino de Paree. With the Casino, Billy revolutionized the nightclub business. His plan of action to attract the masses: 1) "Red is the most successful and exciting color, so paint the joint red"; 2) "Crowd them together-they'll communicate the excitement through their elbows"; 3) "Keep the prices reasonable, the liquor good and the food edible"; 4) "Make...