Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress had been consulted. If the time comes soon when the President asks for repeal or amendment of the Neutrality Act in order to arm U.S. merchant ships,* Congress will have had a chance to ponder the issue. For the President had made it plain that it was not simply a matter of delivering goods to Britain and Britain's colonies. It was a question of keeping the world's sea lanes open for the passage of such raw materials as rubber and tin, which are essential to U.S. defense. Many a Congressman who had thought the historic...
Having read Fletcher Dobyns' Amazing Story of Repeal, and in the light of it TIME'S comment on the Neutrality Act, I am a reconfirmed believer in the perspicuity of at least some of TIME'S editors...
...overwhelming support for his declaration of opposition-short of nothing -to Naziism's threat to the U.S. The second was questioning. Of what did such opposition consist? Next day, at a special press conference, he told reporters he would not ask Congress for convoys or for repeal of the Neutrality...
Before the Eastern Presidents' Conference started after such rules last week, Martin Withington Clement, Pennsylvania R.R. boss, was on the trail. Two years ago he won repeal of a Pennsylvania law which put an extra brakeman on every passenger train of more than five cars, every freight over 50 cars. Clement knows the chances of avoiding at least a small pay raise this year are slim. But he also knows a good shakedown of the rules might save the roads enough to pay whatever increase is granted...
...Congress the fight over the Neutrality Act, which keeps U.S. ships from exercising freedom of the seas, was already coming to a head. A poll of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed that 13 favored repeal, ten were opposed-the same division as in the vote on the Tobey convoy resolution, which would reassert Freedom of the Seas by force. (In one month's time, the Gallup Poll reported, sentiment in favor of convoys jumped from...