Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bewildered moment we have all bought two thirds of the Brooklyn Bridge. It is our right if the constitution (if there is one) says so, to have first, an itemized accounting of all of last year's expenditures, second, periodic accounting of this year's and most important, repeal of National Student Association membership, a very feebly cloaked, padding maneuver. John Zeugner...
...recent past. No longer need attention focus so exclusively on court cases, although cases still in progress must be fought vigorously and new victims defended. But now, while there is a lull, for whatever reason, in the attack on academic freedom, major attention should be turned to securing the repeal and withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop and state clearly the meanings and implications of "academic freedom," in the hope that a wider...
...methods, turned out fewer than 800 gals, a day, not much more than an enterprising moonshiner. After Tennessee went dry in 1909, the distillery first moved to St. Louis, later, during Prohibition, shut down completely for almost 20 years. Finally in 1938, five years after the repeal of Prohibition, Lem Motlow managed to push through a law in still-dry Tennessee, under which Jack Daniel's became the state's only legal distillery...
Labor. Both support the right to organize, full employment, federal aid for depressed areas. At issue: the Democrats advocate outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...
...found itself again with only five passengers. Never one to give up, Miss Bessemer began a new crusade-to electrify the Bluebell and Primrose and connect it with the main line to London. Just as determinedly, the Transport Commission set to work preparing a new bill to repeal the 1877 act and stop the Bluebell and Primrose forever...