Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene Talmadge, tobacco-spittin', suspender-snappin' ex-Governor of Georgia, whose "white supremacy" spiels were his longtime political stock-in-trade, tooted a variation of his old tune in his weekly newspaper, the Statesman, urged Georgia's legislature to repeal the state's $1-a-year poll tax. Said he: "You will get a fairer, expression from the people. . . . There is a great deal of argument that the abolishment of the poll tax would put the Negro to voting . . . such is not the case. The Negroes as a class don't care to vote anyway...
...process the marketing and farm purchasing coops, unlike consumer coops, have become big business, but without big business' tax liabilities. The ''profits" of co-ops - i.e., moneys kept in the till for expansion instead of being returned to members - are taxfree. But repeal of Section 101 (12) would not stop co-op growth, because cash rebates to co op members, and "profits" withheld, if allocated proportionately on the books, would still be taxexempt. Partial relief for private business could be achieved by taxing co-op "profits" unless paid out in cash. But big cooperatives could find money...
...embarrassment on the part of its closest ally and best customer. Before a Congressional subcommittee on foreign trade last week came Dean Acheson, the able Assistant Secretary of State. He strongly recommended that Congress substantially increase the lending power of the Export-Import Bank and at the same time repeal the Johnson Act which prohibits private loans to nations that have not repaid their World War I debts...
...cool Virginius Dabney celebrated the conclusion of his tenth year in command of the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page by harping gently on a familiar string. Since the poll tax is the nub of the soldier-vote question, why not-he suggested-use the projected constitutional convention to repeal the poll tax? Virginia's Bourbons, who pride themselves on the fact that the purpose of the poll tax is and always has been to limit the vote, shook their heads sadly and muttered that V Dabney was at it again...
...Whole Story." With solemn gusto, Franklin Roosevelt then read the roll of the war measures which the Republicans in Congress had opposed: Repeal of the Arms Embargo, 1939; Selective Service, 1940; Lend-Lease, 1941; extension of Selective Service, August...