Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential race he managed the Republicans' national Speakers Bureau, booking Republican speeches all over the U.S. During the 80th Congress he chaired and drastically reorganized the Congressional Campaign Committee. Three years later he ran into the biggest political fight of his career by refusing to vote for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. William De Koning, Nassau County's racketeering labor boss, called on Hall in a rage. Hall still quivers with indignation when he recalls it: "This labor thug-he is just out of jail-came to see me to raise hell about Taft-Hartley. Finally...
...years the club was a front-runner in the fight for repeal of the Chinese Exclusion laws. When an act of repeal was finally voted by Congress, it bore the name of the club's longtime ally in the capital, Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. To the victory celebration in Seattle's Chinese community, Chiang Kai-shek sent another message: "All Chinese deeply appreciate your removing us from the stigma of exclusion ... It is worth 20 divisions to me in morale...
Bicycle Rider. Mencken's day faded fast. First the Depression and then the repeal of Prohibition outdated both him and his straw men. He tried to laugh off the Depression. But the college men, now unemployed, who had always laughed with Mencken, failed to get the joke. The old Mercury lost its following, and less than five years later many a bright college boy did not know who Mencken was. At a political convention, when a photographer asked him his name and occupation, Mencken solemnly wrote: "Retired six-day bicycle rider." But in his sundown. Mencken found new activities...
...since the abortive 1924 campaign when the CIO endorsed FDR's candidacy. The AFL was somewhat slower but no less fervent in its political affiliations. Although it did not back Truman in 1948, it allowed its top men to aid the Democrats on an unofficial basis. The struggle to repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill made the actions of the LLPE and the PAC even more partisan and, in 1952, both AFL and CIO conventions formally approved Stevenson. American labor had finally, and perhaps irrevocably, entered the ground upon which it had feared to tread...
...date of expiration--say two years hence--placed on such laws as the Internal Security Act of 1950 and the Communist Control Act of 1954 would force Congress to prove the continued need for anti-subversive laws enacted during the last few years. Ideally, Congress should repeal portions of these laws that may have injured the non-Communist more than the true subversive. Yet even the present period of freer speech and fewer book-burnings cannot erase the usual Congressional dislike of making an about-face to repeal its own laws. Regardless of the particular merits or demerits of these...