Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this war," Alf Landon charged, "regardless of what our part in it may be, this little group of New Dealers hope to establish, beyond repeal, their collective State...
...Nazis reached Moscow, Congress was debating repeal or amendment of the Neutrality Act, just as it had been debating it two years ago when the war began. Senator Tom Connally was denouncing the Nazis on the torpedoing of the Kearny: "This murderous and foul crime must be avenged"; Secretary Hull was saying again that this act proved Hitler's plan for world domination. The President was still being cagey, and Alf Landon was still warning about collectivism in the New Deal. Martin Dies was still finding Communists in innumerable Government agencies...
Last week the House voted on the next move of the President's Thousand-and-One-Steps-to-War policy: repeal of the Neutrality Act's Section 6, which forbids U.S. merchant ships to have any armament greater than a captain's pistol or a harpoon gun. On the morning the bill came to a vote, Sam Rayburn got a further break: the U.S.S. Kearny was torpedoed...
...bill ripped over to the Senate like the torpedo that smashed into the U.S.S. Kearny, in a wave of excited decision. After counseling with Wendell Willkie, Republican Senators Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Warren Austin of Vermont and Chan Gurney of South Dakota introduced an amendment to repeal the Neutrality Act in its entirety. This clove the Senate G.O.P. down to its muddled brisket, completely took the play away from such Democratic fire-eaters as Carter Glass of Virginia, Claude Pepper of Florida, Josh Lee of Oklahoma, who were preparing to do the same thing...
Although this move meant a possible delay in the repeal of Section 6, and a probable knockdown, drag-out fight, it was also a stride toward honesty in facing the real issue: How much more is the U.S. going to do against Hitler...