Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials," of lower food ceilings, a cost-of-living ceiling on wages, absolute freezing of salaries above $7,500 a year, a powerful economic administrator to whip the whole program into sense-making action. Perhaps the President had not only felt it wiser to give Congress a chance to repeal the 110% of parity law, but first to put the heat on Congress and the farm bloc so that there would be less criticism of any step he took...
...both points Secretary Wickard backtracked last week. Conditions had changed in eight months, said he: day by day the hard facts of war were coming home to the U.S. Now Wickard urged the repeal of the 110% farm ceiling price-100% is enough. Moreover, he offered to approve an OPA ceiling on livestock prices provided farmers are protected against low prices. The hoped-for result would be to ease the squeeze between Henderson's ceiling on retail meats and Wickard's refusal to fix prices on the animals that packers...
...driest Idaho, he courageously ran for Senator on a repeal platform. Although he comes from silver-mining country, he steadily, firmly condemns the Silver Purchase Act as economic idiocy. He was Democratic county chairman in 1940 when Glenn Taylor won the nomination and at once resigned in disgust, announcing that he would support the Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not quite a complete imbecile. He calls Cowboy Taylor a "goddam pettifogging demagogue...
...error in judgment. To Texans, who are fighting-proud of their fighting sons, he said: "I ain't worried about the war. That's Roosevelt's job." Allred and Moody will not let Texas forget this un-Texan remark-or Pappy's votes against neutrality repeal and draft extension...
...half-hearted attempt on the part of University Hall to meet undergraduate criticism is doomed to fail. There is but one way to settle the matter for the second session, and that is an immediate repeal of the ten-dollar fee for all Harvard undergraduate and graduate students...