Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unemployment figures go up again in March-when seasonal factors usually bring new hiring-the Cabinet's impatient men will push for a hefty tax cut. Last week Administration tax experts were already working over such ideas as a one-year repeal of certain excise taxes, e.g., halving the tax on new autos, thereby saving the buyer $100 or more a year.* And they also were making practice passes at some new ideas, e.g., a two-month forgiveness of withholding taxes that could instantly pump out $2.3 billion in spendable take-home pay, thus give the economy a quick...
Explaining graciously that business needs "a shot in the arm," Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. last month urged the city council to repeal Baltimore's tax on newspaper and TV advertising (TIME, Nov. 18), which Mayor Tommy had himself rammed through last fall. Last week, while the council mulled over the mayor's proposal (which would also give a shot in the arm to Democrat D'Alesandro's campaign for the U.S. Senate), Maryland's general assembly beat Tommy to the gun by passing a Senate-approved bill outlawing ad taxes...
...course they can't strike against the city or the state because that's rebellion, which is almost a revolution. They're against law and order and violating the law. Of course the Democrats tried to repeal that law a while ago, but they like it fine right now. So you can go to New York City and watch the government bust a strike because anyone who works for the government or a public commission just has no right to strike. The public interest must be served. The welfare of the state comes first. So the City will break...
Finally, the argument from reformation cannot at all be used by the forces opposing abolition. Death has little reformative influence. Conversely, a reformative theory favors repeal of the penalty, and heavier reliance on corrective institutions...
...seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...