Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggested the repeal of the corporate income tax as the initial step toward this end. "The only fair deal," he went on, "is a fair deal that allows the business man to do his job and reap his reward. I am not half as afraid of the gargantuan business as I am of the gargantuan state. You can quit General Motors but you can't quit a public health plan or compulsory education...
...splashed ashore on the beaches at Guanica to end the rule of Spain in 1898. By the peace treaty, Puerto Rico became a U.S. possession. Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship; their Resident Commissioner in Washington has a voice in Congress, but no vote. Congress has the right to repeal any act of the Puerto Rican legislature. The right has never been used, but its continued existence irks Puerto Ricans...
...past 3½ months, the House had passed 364 public and private bills. Besides ECA and the arms budget, it had authorized reciprocal-trade extension, rent-control extension, executive reorganization, oleo tax repeal, and extension of export and allocation controls. It had passed every major appropriation bill for the regular departments-a chore Congress usually delays, then jams through in its harried closing minutes...
...most controversial measures in Harry Truman's program were still to be met. After the recess, the House would tackle the Administration's bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law. Administration strategists figured that a short visit with the home folks would win many Congressmen over to the Administration's side. Just to be sure, from A.F.L. and C.I.O. headquarters, orders went to locals all over the country. When Congressmen turned in the front gate, they would find delegations waiting on the front doorstep. A Democratic leader hopefully predicted: "We're going to pass a pretty...
...Congress, federal fair-trade laws also were under attack. Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill to repeal the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which permits states to pass price-fixing laws that might otherwise violate the federal antitrust...