Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight to reform the Supreme Court, his attempt to purge Congress in 1938. "These forces," wrote the President, "had tried stubbornly ... to stop our program of reform. They had failed. . . . Therefore, through the years of 1937 and 1938, their activities to impede progress and to bring about a repeal ... of the New Deal . . .were redoubled." At a press conference last week the President tartly rebuked a newsman for dragging party questions into the picture when the U.S. is in danger. But when it came to his own party problems, Franklin Roosevelt had neither forgiven nor forgotten...
...reading material would be left? Last year members of the Psychology Department, on the track of meat for class-room consumption, constituted themselves into a committee, presumably impartial, to study distortion of news in eight Boston newspapers. Equipped with rulers and calculating machines, the psychologists chose the fight over repeal of the Arms Embargo last fall as an issue suitable for study and began to add inches. To no one's great surprise, most of the dailies were found all too innocent of objectivity, the cardinal virtue in journalism. John Q. Public, who rarely reads editorials, could nevertheless grasp editorial...
...more U.S. merchantmen are sunk, the President must ask that merchant ships be armed. The Neutrality Act now forbids their carrying any arms beyond officers' pistols, but at the White House this week the President discussed with his Congressional advisers the advisability of asking Congress for a repeal of this section of the Act. Although no decisions were reached, this conference foreshadowed events to come. Eventually the Neutrality Act must be whittled down to the size of U.S. neutrality, something which the President in effect has now declared to be nonexistent...
...fall a Faculty vs. students lineup which was to last for the rest of the year was apparent. Under the distinguished leadership of President Conant, the majority of the Faculty came out vehemently first for the repeal of the arms embargo and then for all aid to the Allies. The majority of the student groups remained in the isolationist camp and only a few sided openly with their teachers...
...domestic) was to keep Western miners at work. In the new U.S. shortage economy, this argument no longer holds even a drop of water. Therefore big mining companies (including Anaconda, Phelps Dodge, Cerro de Pasco) also have been seeking new industrial uses for silver as a hedge against possible repeal of the program. Some of their suggestions: substituting silver for copper in electrical contacts, using it with magnesium for lightweight alloys...