Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long has the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee considered the repeal of a law which commands that there must always be competition in the declining U. S. telegraph industry. Last January it got the opinion of the Federal Communications Commission: that Western Union and Postal Telegraph ought to merge, that there is not enough business to support both, especially Postal. The Senate did nothing...
...life of the order of St. John the Evangelist is not always one of monotonous spirituality. In 1932, for instance, a devout believer is reported to have sent the fathers two cases of beer, as a token of his gratitude to God for the repeal of Prohibition. The fathers promptly celebrated; unfortunately so did a party in the apartment-house next door. According to the tale, the party eventually addressed their neighbors as "swizzling monks", and the brothers leaned out of the window to reply. Their exact answer has never been recorded...
...drew some comfort from the defeat of pompous, unpopular anti-New Deal Senator Edward Burke by popular Governor Roy L. Cochran in the Democratic primary. Burke had antagonized the farmers by voting against parity payments; Labor, by attacking NLRB; Czechs and Poles, by lauding Hitler; Germans, by voting for repeal of the arms embargo. The Republicans had turned down a New Dealer within their own ranks, Arthur J. Weaver, in favor of Grainman Hugh Butler of Omaha, who probably won because he spent enough money to get a professional organization. The Republicans confidently expected to beat Governor Cochran with Grainman...
...Nash and Ed Kelly, the Irish bosses of Boston. . . ." President Roosevelt, Chamberlain declares, "always went from the worse to the better until the European war distracted him." On this point he really lets fly. "It is far easier to lecture Hitler than to fight for a repeal of the poll tax in Mississippi...
...Smith amendments would "more than repeal the Labor...