Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poll tax repeal will not free the South from demagogues. It is significant that Huey Long found it advisable to repeal the poll taxd when he came to power in Louisiana. Far from freeing Congress of such specimens as "Mississippi's Bilbonic plague," it will merely add to the electorate more of the ignorant white farmers who form their support...
...Poll tax repeal definitely will not give the vote to any colored people. North Carolina repealed her poll tax over 20 years ago, yet Negores do not vote in North Carolina. It can only strengthen the determination of unenlightened Southerners who wish to keep the Negro disfranchised...
...Senator voted against slum clearance and low cost housing, needed government reorganization, against extension of TVA, and against CCC and aid for the unemployed. In foreign affairs, he voted against repeal of the disastrous arms embargo, against the trade pacts, backbone of the Good Neighbor policy and against sending an army abroad, thus tying the hands of the military. This is neither the record of a humanitarian, a leader, or a statesman...
Singly, then like leaves in a gusty rustle of thousands, the letters came down. Some indignant, some pleading-all asking repeal of a once-minor piece of legislation: the law covering the renegotiation of war contracts. Last week the crackling corporate stationery and the yellow telegrams-2.000 in two days-fell on the Senate Finance Committee. Said Chairman Walter F. George: "As the law now operates it is definitely slowing up production...
...Blackpool, tawdry, tinseled haven of Britain's working-class vacationers, delegates to the trade unions' annual convention heard with disgusted snortings a letter from Winston Churchill: "I wish to represent as strongly as possible that [repeal of the Trades Disputes Act] should not be pressed. . . . I am specially anxious that nothing should be done to impair national unity and also the good relationships between the Government and the Trades Union Congress...