Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces now operating in American college education compel the repeal of the rule immediately. For at least two years Harvard will be over-crowded. The only foreseeable way to increase appreciably the number of available vacant rooms is for the University to allow all students who so desire to provide their own lodging while at College...
Volume Down, Profits Up. A third group of corporations was able to report higher profits despite a smaller volume of business and increased costs. Reason: they could keep a bigger percentage of their smaller profits because of the repeal of the excess profits...
Visionary young Milton McRompers, the Boy Senator, had a brave idea-to force every candidate for public office to have his head examined. But after three weeks under the fiendish McRompers law, the U.S. had had enough. Washington went wild over repeal and the joyous headline: "Government officials no longer to be selected on basis of brains and integrity." Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), who had dreamed up the episode in his Sunday comic strip, turned his fertile mind to other things...
Just before the repeal of prohibition, a friend of Chicago Security Dealer Howard R. Walton's suggested that he go into the liquor business. Said Walton: "Count me out. I don't know anything about it." But by 1934 he thought better of it, joined the sales staff, of Gooderham & Worts, subsidiary of Canada's Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Limited (Canadian Club, Ballantine's, William Penn...
Labor had sometimes suspected that one of these days Britain's peers might again itch to extend their legislative hand and block Laborite bills passed by the House of Commons. Last week it almost happened. The Lords were considering the repeal of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act when Lord Merthyr, a former artillery major, boldly suggested an amendment that would substantially change the bill. Said he: "I submit that the functions of your lordships' House should be allowed to continue as they were intended to continue ... [or] is this House really merely an assembly for dotting...