Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repeal? Betting was that the President would not ask for full repeal of the Neutrality Act, thus permitting isolationists, appeasers, peacemongers and their assorted following to put on another dramatic show. Best guess was that the President would ask simply for permission to arm merchant ships...
...President made it clear last week that the next big order of business before the U.S. was repeal, in whole or in part, of the Neutrality Act-after Prohibition, America's second Noble Experiment...
Moves. Administration supporters downtown and on Capitol Hill already had their jackknives out, were busily whittling away at the rotten wood of the Neutrality Act. Secretary of State Cordell Hull had already announced that he favored drastic modification or repeal, had said that the Act was as likely to get the U.S. in the war as keep...
Senate Foreign Relations Chief Tom Connally said he was ready to arm merchant ships. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had already urged repeal. Utah's bald, easygoing Senator Elbert D. Thomas came out for repeal. Tennessee's pompous, vest-piped Senator Kenneth D. McKellar introduced a ten-line bill to repeal the Act. Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted that the prohibition against arming U.S. merchant ships would be repealed "after some fighting and scratching around...
...same time, he urged the President not to engage Congress in a battle over repeal of the Neutrality Act and suggested strategy by which it could be avoided...