Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young artist was on a hunger strike in Tel Aviv last week, and all Israel debated the consequences. The artist: Moshe Barak, 27, an Israeli of Rumanian parentage who was wounded four times in the Arab-Israeli war. His objective: to force the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to repeal its rabbinical ban on civil marriages...
...Georgia's Walter George, thought that Lyndon Johnson's political dream was a fiscal nightmare. Johnson's plan affected several phases of tax policy, but its heart was a $20 cut for each taxpayer plus a $10 cut for each dependent (except the spouse), balanced against repeal of the Eisenhower Administration's tax credit on stock-dividend income. Johnson maintained that the proposal would add almost $5 billion to U.S. revenue. But Harry Byrd, a better man with tax figures than Lyndon Johnson, said that it would result in a net loss of nearly $600 million...
Opposed in principle to paying any taxes, Poujade & Co. demand: 1) abolition of the Polyvalents, the Finance Ministry's 376-man squad of special investigators, who have the power to descend on any enterprise and check its books; 2) repeal of penalties for tax evasion. Egged on by Poujade, tens of thousands of taxpayers, mostly in southern France, where his strength is greatest, have refused to make their first installment in payment of taxes on last year's income. About half the members of the National Assembly are flirting nervously with provincial Poujadist organizations...
...France's shopkeepers, found it hard to refuse Poujade. Only the Catholic M.R.P., the Radical Socialists and some Independents put up stiff resistance. Faure himself compromised, agreed to call the Polyvalents off businesses grossing less than 60 million francs, if the Assembly would postpone the debate on repeal of the tax evasion penalties. "Otherwise," he said, "you can find yourselves another government." Poujade-backing Assemblymen Max Brusset and Edouard Frédéric-Dupont agreed to withdraw their motions...
...terms* preserve continuity and stability in management, Judge Fisher replied: ". . . Stability in management is always desirable, but whether continuity of the same individuals on the board insures stability may be questioned ... It may lead to the perpetuation of error and mismanagement." Judge Fisher ordered Ward's directors to repeal the staggered-term bylaw, notify stockholders that all nine directorships will be up for election at the April 22 meeting...