Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON -- The House Rules Committee cleared the way today for a showdown floor light between the Administration and independent-minded Congressmen over the controversial proposal to repeal President Roosevelt's $25,000 net salary limit...
...Ways and Means Committee Wesley E. Disney, Oklahoma's grey, square-jawed reactionary Democrat, hurried a bill to repeal the President's $25,000 salary limit. Wary of a veto, Disney made his bill a rider on the Administration's urgent legislation raising the statutory limit of the national debt to $210,000,000,000. Franklin Roosevelt would have to sign that...
...most statesmanlike action of the week, though hardly a credit to the legislators. Once before they had refused to abolish the State's poll tax, seemed set to do so again. But the State's press reminded wealthy, irascible Governor Prentice Cooper of his campaign promise to repeal the tax. One by one, Prentice Cooper-who fondles his pet parrot "Laura" while transacting State business-called in the legislators, demanded their votes. From Memphis came the affirmative nod of white-haired Democratic Boss Ed Crump. After that it was just a breeze; the legislators repealed...
...committee of the Idaho House and Senate figured up the cost of the grants (over $13,560,000); looked up the State budget for public assistance (under $5,550,000); checked up prospective State revenues ("materially reduced"). Last week, as the only way out, the Idaho Legislature voted to repeal...
...begun last November when the Senate was debating poll-tax repeal. Because a quorum was lacking, the Sergeant at Arms was ordered to arrest absent members, march them straight to the floor. A Jurney deputy captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar in a hotel room and made Senator McKellar feudin' mad. Last week the gentleman from Tennessee showed just how mad that...