Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tire of trying to predict what unpredictable Mr. Roosevelt will do, people predicted: the release of 75 more destroyers, a deal to turn over to England a large proportion of the U. S. merchant marine, an assembly plant to turn out standardized ships for Britain in wholesale quantities, the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the repeal of the Johnson Act (prohibiting loans to govern ments in default on World War I debts). In official circles, outright repeal of the Johnson Act or a scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry, one centre of the British...
...used for an attack upon democracy. White himself recently said, in effect, that it was treason to oppose invasion of the European continent, for he asserted appeasement was treason, and defined appeasement as a stalemate peace leaving Germany in control of the continent. The Committee is now working for repeal of the Neutrality Act and the Johnson Act, and for sending more bombers, more destroyers to Britain...
...businessman's budget was a bust; he attempted to repeal the oleomargarine tax in a State whose car license plates slogan "America's Dairyland." Nevertheless, Wisconsiners tramped through snow and rain to give Republican Julius ("The Just") Heil, 62-year-old millionaire industrialist, another try at the Governorship...
...recommended that the Congress repeal the embargo on the shipment of armaments and munitions to nations at war, and permit such shipment on a 'cash-and-carry basis...
...line of pet black poodles, from Mouf I to Mopsa. Famed also are her activities as a suffragette, as a women's leader in the Council of National Defense in World War I, as a member of the National Democratic Committee, as secretary of the Connecticut convention for repeal of the 18th Amendment...