Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Before a House Judiciary subcommittee, Chief Trustbuster Stanley Barnes suggested that the members "might well consider repeal of the Miller-Tydings Amendment to the Sherman Act as well as the McGuire Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act." While Barnes said that the Justice Department was not yet ready to recommend repeal of the Fair Trade laws, as suggested by Attorney General Brownell's special antitrust committee (TIME, April 11), he revealed that he was "considerably disturbed by responsible businessmen" contending that brand-name products are cheaper in Fair Trade areas than else where. To answer such statements, said...
...people of this country want to get this racial situation on a practical basis they will first of all repeal the Fourteenth Amendment which, as I see it, is Constitutionally illegal. From a letter to the Richmond NEWS-LEADER
...McBride, 82, a leader of the Anti-Saloon League of America for 44 years; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A Presbyterian minister, McBride became a professional temperance crusader in 1911. He lamented in 1934 that the end of prohibition was resulting in "riots and bloodshed." In 1935 he proclaimed that "repeal has failed" and predicted national prohibition would be back...
...George got 52½votes for President at the Democratic National Convention, but he loyally supported Nominee Al Smith, the champion of the wets (George later voted for repeal, and now enjoys sipping a bourbon and water, preferably when his wife is not around). George has been a member of twelve Senate committees and has been chairman of five, but his assignment in 1926 to the tax-writing Finance Committee and in 1928 to the powerful Foreign Relations Committee started him in the fields that became his specialties...
...deliberately chose Holy Week to launch, through his puppet press, a campaign for repeal of the constitutional provision stating that "the federal government supports the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church...