Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week, by radio, in leaflets and posters, Jap propagandists were hammering at Chinese morale. And they had the U.S. Congress on a tough spot. Before the House Immigration Committee were three bills to modify or repeal Chinese exclusion. If the Committee failed to vote out one of the bills, Chinese feelings would be deeply hurt. If the bill were reported out and passed, the A.F. of L., American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars would be very angry with Congress. And if the bill were reported out and rejected, matters would be still worse: it would...
...call begins. "Can't you visualize the war whoop," he cries, "when Arkansas, third state on the roll call, rises to yield to Wisconsin!" Representative Fish, who shares with the McCormick-Patterson family his enthusiasm for MacArthur as an anti-New Deal candidate, has introduced a bill to repeal the Army ban on the political candidacies of men in active service...
...Sweet Adeline. Back in the U.S. for a lecture tour, Sheean strongly disapproved of the Roosevelt-Willkie election campaign. It was "perfectly clear" to Sheean that no Republican administration would "dare" repeal the New Deal's social legislation, so "what was the sense of the argument?" The only person Sheean met in those days "who did not talk about this election as if the fate of humanity depended upon it was the President himself...
Slogan Slugged. In St. Paul, state senators voted to hurry the repeal of a law requiring that all state letterheads carry the slogan "Eat More Butter...
...this bill he headed the Congressional revolt against the Administration. He wanted to repeal the $25,000 salary ceiling in such a way that Franklin Roosevelt could not veto the measure. His problem was solved when the Administration asked legislation lifting the statutory debt limit to $210,000,000,000. To the Administration's bill, Disney tacked on his rider...