Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repeal the laws that forbid "expressions in favor of revolutionary changes in our institutions, where there is no clear and present danger that violence will result from the expressions...
President Truman today asked Congress to repeal 24 wartime control laws outright and listed 78 others he wanted to be extended or allowed to lapse...
...from N.A.M.'s industrial relations committee, drawing up suggestions for a new federal labor policy. Some committee members, led by Chrysler Corp.'s finance chairman, B. E. Hutchinson, and the Michigan Manufacturers Association's hard-bitten general manager, John R. Lovett, were all for demanding quick repeal of the Wagner Act. But to committee chairman Clarence B. Randall, vice president of Inland Steel Co., plumping for outright repeal seemed just the sort of thing that had given N.A.M. a bad name in the past. N.A.M., said Randall, should be content to outline broad objectives, let Congress determine...
...James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring...
Shadowboxing. Woodring's strafing of the dry law caught Kansas politicians off guard. So effective was his attack that the down-at-heels Democratic organization nominated him as the gubernatorial opponent of Republican Congressman Frank Carlson (TIME, Aug. 19). Then he wrote a wet plank (repeal, state-operated liquor stores, county option, no saloons) into the Democratic platform. By last week Harry Woodring had come up from nowhere to a 50-50 chance for election...