Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public sentiment mounted by stages, so William Allen White was drafted by stages to take an active part in converting opinion into action. When the Congressional debate on repeal of the Neutrality Act was at its height, his old friend Clark Eichelberger, director of The League of Nations Association, called him from Manhattan, asked him to head a committee to advocate repeal of the embargo. Editor White steadfastly refused, but Eichelberger induced other friends to press him, and White finally made several speeches. In Emporia when repeal was certain, he received a two-word telegram from Franklin Roosevelt: "Thanks, Bill...
Special provisions for cases of exceptional hardship merely added to the confusion. Most of the litigation centred around the complex problem of evaluating "invested capital." Carter Glass, McAdoo's successor, summarized the tax when he recommended its repeal in 1919: "It encourages wasteful expenditure, puts a premium on overcapitalization and a penalty on brains, energy and enterprise, discourages new ventures and confirms old ventures in their monopolies...
...these were alarming words. No less alarming were those of Henry L. Stimson (three days later nominated Secretary of War), who arrived in New Haven to urge fellow Yalemen to support compulsory military training, and of Yale's President Charles Seymour, who on the radio urged repeal of the Neutrality Act and all possible aid to Britain...
...speed up our manufacture of airplanes for shipment to the Allies; to ask Washington authorities to give military secrets to the Allies; to enable volunteers in this country to enter the war by the removal of legal restrictions; and to make credit available to the Allies by repeal of the Johnson...
Speaking under the auspices of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, Conant advocated a program for this country that includes immediate rearmament; the sending of Army and Navy airplanes to England and France "without impairing our own security"; repeal of the laws which prevent United States citizens from volunteering to serve in foreign armies; control of exports with the purpose of "aiding the Allies by avoiding leaks to Germany"; and the cooperation of the U. S. Maritime Commission with the Allies "in every possible way under our present laws to expedite the sending of suplies and munitions...