Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...searching and conscience wrestling might have been avoided by members who took their jobs literally as Representatives. Outstanding were the cases of Kansas and Nebraska. Surveys, polls, opinion-samplings, the position of daily and weekly newspapers have amassed much evidence to show that the citizens of both States favor repeal of the Neutrality Act's obstructions to delivery of the goods. Yet Kansas members were to vote: 1 for repeal, 6 against; Nebraska members, 1 for, 4 against...
...seesawed, nip & tuck. Not until the "Ws" were reached could Rayburn be sure. He announced the vote at 4:25, in the hushed House: "212 ayes to 194 nays." The bill was passed. A shift of ten votes would have killed it. Of 159 Republicans, 137 had voted against repeal. But if 22 Republicans had voted against repeal instead of for it, the bill would have been beaten. In the two days of debate the Republican leader, Joe Martin of Massachusetts, had said only five words-these when the order of speakers was mixed up: "What is the program...
...Evidence of "unlimited cooperation" with U.S. foreign policy, to wit: repeal of the Arias-imposed ban on arming merchant ships (there are approximately 125 U.S.-owned ships under Panama registry); promise of "quick and favorable" action on any U.S. requests for air-and naval-base sites...
...survey made for the interventionist Continental Congress for Freedom held in Washington last month, 59 Nebraska editors and publishers reported that their communities were now overwhelmingly in favor of the Administration's foreign policy, substantially in favor of Neutrality Act repeal. Said one editor: "The so-called 'Isolationist Midwest' exists only in the minds of Congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent months...
Last week no interventionist Congressman, debating repeal of the Neutrality Act, could believe that Congress would vote for war. But if the U.S. was fighting to defend her honor, as President Roosevelt said, if every schoolchild knew it, if the shooting had started, why could not such a vote be taken? Somewhere between the hard common-sense drama of General Wood and the idealistic quandary of President Roosevelt, most U.S. emotion and attention was centered. General Wood's blunt words did not leave enough room for U.S. reactions to such Nazi blows as the killing of hostages, the speed...