Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tudor Gardiner 2L, Harvard's Senator Wheeler, and Law School Professor Warren A. Seavey, sizzled the lighting circuits last night in a CRIMSON Network debate on the Neutrality Act repeal question...
Present public opinion, Seavey claimed, shows that American feelings are decidedly not neutral. The popular acceptance of the destroyer deal, the occupation of Iceland, and convoying of ships, indicate the true attitude of the United States. "Repeal of the Act," he continued, "would take off the cover of hypocrisy and would clearly draw the lines of our foreign policy...
Gardiner, in answer, stressed the fact the that law's repeal, would have little effect in insuring transportation for a larger supply of goods to the embattled democracies. "Only four percent of lease-lend ear goes were lost," stated the America Firster, "a figure too small to invoice arming of all merchant ships, even if such arming were possible...
...Asked repeal of the "socalled" Neutrality...
...month ago Speaker Sam Rayburn's aides had fought and shoved and sweated blood to squeak through draft extension by one vote-203-to-202. Now they told the Speaker that the President probably could get repeal of the Neutrality Act through the House. In August there existed grave doubts that a second Lend-Lease appropriation could be passed; now it was expected to be practically a formality...