Word: repeals
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Making his first public statement on the war since his letter to Alf Landon favoring repeal of the arms embargo last October, President Conant will speak tonight over a nation-wide hook-up of the Columbia broadcasting system on "Immediate Aid to the Allies...
...letter of October 4th to the former Republican Presidential candidate, President Conant approved embargo repeal and pleaded for an unemotional approach. He said of the Allies, "I believe if these countries are defeated by a totalitarian power, the hope of free institutions as a basis of modern civilization will be jeopardized...
...Congress stirred to a bigger issue: Kentucky's leathery Representative Andrew May, chairman, House Military Affairs Committee, called for repeal of the hitherto inviolable Johnson Act, banning all U. S. loans and credits to any defaulting debtor nation which blocks loans to the Allies. The Act's author, old World War I Isolationist Hiram Johnson of California, cried indignantly ". . . road to war." > What stand, if any, should...
Last autumn the U. S. Congress met in special session to debate repeal of the arms embargo in the Neutrality Act-a session solemnly heralded as "The Great Debate." But Session II of the 76th Congress went through the motions in a curious air of unreality: the Great Debate didn't come off; the President talked boldly, the Senate debated boldly, on all the secondary points-nowhere could the press or the public find candor, willingness to face or seek facts. The embargo was repealed, Congress went home, Mr. Roosevelt went to Warm Springs-in an atmosphere of somnolent...
Moreover, though Chambermen attacked New Deal administrative methods, they did not demand complete repeal of New Deal laws. Investment Bankers Association's Emmett F. Connely, after a hot blast against TNEC, suggested "innumerable instances where the administration of the laws as they now stand could be simplified to everyone's benefit without changing the law itself." Henning Prentis said: "Let government amend those laws that are obviously unfair to the businessman in certain particulars, such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Wage and Hour Act, and the two Securities acts." Yale & Towne's President W. Gibson...