Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Yandell Henderson, 70, professor emeritus of physiology at Yale; of an intestinal ailment; in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Henderson was instrumental in the repeal of the 18th Amendment, told Congress in 1932 that it was impossible to get drunk on 4% beer...
...counties in the U.S., 934 have already been dried or partially dried since repeal of the 18th Amendment, (Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma are totally dry states.) The prohibition goal for 1944: to dry up 66 more counties, for a grand total of 1,000 and a round one-third of all the counties in the land...
...adequate profit on $23,000,000 worth of business? Bill Jack felt sure it was not. In the next few weeks, he plans to plaster the U.S. with ads in 49 newspapers condemning renegotiation and asking for the law's repeal...
...Deal used, the President said, were for internal troubles: saving bank deposits by the FDIC, saving homes from foreclosure by the HOLC, saving farms from foreclosure by the FCA, protecting investors by the SEC. Sarcastically the President said he supposed that there were some people who wanted to repeal all these remedies...
...Secretary Henry Morgenthau cast off his usual timidity and forthrightly denounced the 1944 tax bill. The Treasury, said he, would be better off without any tax bill than with the one just put together by the Senate Finance Committee. He was angriest over sections of the bill which virtually repeal the Contracts Renegotiation Act. Said he: "They open the way to truly extortionate profits. I predict if they are enacted into law they will come back to plague not only the Congress but the war goods manufacturers. They hold the seed of a national scandal...