Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold W. Canavan, a Revere representative in the state legislature, is circulating an initiative petition to repeal the present zone system of auto insurance rates and substitute a flat rate for the whole of Massachusetts...
...fifth time in 41 years, Oklahoma's wets did their doggondest to repeal the state prohibition law. Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself...
...moderate drinker himself, Gray favors the legalization of liquor sales in dry Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Santford Martin, 63, the Journal's tall, pink-cheeked editor, is a lifelong teetotaler and editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers, give Martin a chance to answer with signed prohibitionist editorials in the Journal...
Convictions. This summer, for 2½ months, Publisher Gray and Editor Martin fought out the battle of the bottle on the Journal editorial page, though in the news columns, both newspapers played up stories favoring repeal. The mayor backed Gray; the churches lined up behind Martin...
...reasons of conscience, principle and conviction, I have been unable to follow the policy of the [owners]. I am sure [they] acted also for the same reasons." In record numbers, the voters of Forsyth County registered their choice: For Editor Martin and prohibition: 15,734; for Publisher Gray and repeal...