Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of these labor organizations are beginning to take on the color of the old Anti-Saloon crowd in its palmy days before Repeal. They have the same kind of political and financial power to coerce government agencies, to threaten individual Congressmen and to frighten liberal critics by labeling them as opponents of a great moral cause. . . . Independent businessmen, consumers and farmers have had to sit back in enraged helplessness while labor used coercion for the following purposes: Price control, eliminating cheap methods of distribution, creating local trade barriers by restricting the use of materials made outside the state, preventing...
With this agreement on principle, Congress is not apt to be urged to repeal renegotiation. The question is how to amend it without emasculating...
YOUR ARTICLE REGARDING HEARINGS ON REPEAL OF CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW [TIME, JUNE 14] WAS EXCELLENT EXCEPT THAT YOU MENTIONED THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WOULD BE ANGRY IF LAW REPEALED BUT FAILED TO INDICATE THAT OTHERS WERE SUPPORTING REPEAL. MOST IMPORTANT ARE THE CALIFORNIA STATE C.I.O. . . . AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE . . . HAVE URGED CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION REPEALING THIS DISCRIMINATORY LAW AND PUTTING CHINESE ON QUOTA BASIS...
...Repeal put Childs back into the money - but not before Founder William had almost ruined it. Distraught by his brother Samuel's death (in 1925) and by financial troubles, William took the cure at Battle Creek, Mich. There Dr. John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet, 2) the evils of drinking water at mealtime, 3) the evils of tobacco at any time. William tried to sell Childs customers on a similar Spartan bill of fare. General sales resistance finally roused hungry Childs stockholders to push him out of the company in 1929. Nine years later...
...Yellow Peril." Standpat "Yellow Peril" opponents of Oriental immigration have been unable to build up 105 Chinese into a menace. Their spokesman, Representative A. Leonard Allen of Louisiana, argues that repeal of the Chinese ban would immediately generate pressure for the admission of all other Orientals (except, of course, Japs). Representative Allen goes further to argue that tens of thousands of Chinese from Hong Kong might come in under the British quota. One reply was a new bill providing that 75% of the quota must be residents of China proper...