Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What he means is that Humphrey, at 43, has mellowed considerably, is willing to live and let live in order to keep Democrats working together. He has toned down his civil-rights talk. The Humphrey-type liberals have given up-at least temporarily-their all-out drive for complete repeal of Taft-Hartley...
Farmer Deetz and his customers started an "Elmer Deetz Jug Club," printed up membership cards calling the milk law "udderly useless," started circulating petitions for the law's repeal. Deetz tools out a $4,000 mortgage on his small farm, got another $1,000 from customers, used it for petitions, pamphlets and radio time...
Soon Jug Clubs mushroomed all over Oregon with the slogan: "Short Cut to the Consumer . . . From Teats to Deetz to You." Oregon's big producers, who benefited from the law, started their own $100,000 campaign against repeal...
FAIR TRADE LAW REPEAL may be recommended by Attorney General Herbert Brownell's committee on antitrust laws and enforcement. After a year's study, the committee of 60 lawyers, businessmen and industrialists is expected to deliver a highly critical report on the 1952 McGuire Fair Trade Act, which sanctioned price-fixing between manufacturers and retailers...
Last week Italy's fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists called for its repeal. Premier Mario Scelba (who as De Gasperi's Interior Minister had conceived the law) lent his support to its repeal. The vote: 427 to 75. In renouncing his own law and in joining with the Reds in repealing it, Scelba confessed a galling defeat but did himself no political harm. His government has now lasted four months in office and shows signs of staying power...