Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Montana's arch-isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler voted against repeal of the arms embargo, against Lend-Lease, against draft extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay...
...Congress' pork-barrel price for domestic silver (71.11? an oz. v. 35⅛? for foreign metal) keeps it out of the industrial market, Manhattan Silver Dealers Handy & Harman had to prorate their customers. Yet Silver Senators last week were after Henry Morgenthau's scalp for trying to repeal the Silver Purchase...
...President urged Congress to pass a new tax bill swiftly: asked 100% taxation of excess profits-but buck-passed to Congress the problem of defining where excess profits begin. To help solve the farm price ceiling problem he asked repeal of the complicated, inflationary formula which the farm bloc wrote into the price-control...
...less devious method, of course, would be to repeal the 1934 Silver Purchase Act and let silver's price find its commercial level-perhaps as low as 15? an ounce. Mining State Senators last week were preparing a last-ditch defense of their 71? racket. As though to prove they had lost none of their nerve, they even demanded priorities on mining equipment to meet the new war-industry demand for silver-at twice the already artificial market price. Hard-hitting American Metal Market (trade organ) found a word for it in O. Henry: "The legitimate ethics of pure...
...urged Congress indirectly, through a letter to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, to empower him to repeal individual items in bills (a death blow to pork-barrel legislation). He went ahead with plans for manpower mobilization-under which the 26,500,000 men registered in the draft will be classified for work in war industries, if they cannot fight...