Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasury Secretary George Humphrey has already asked the House Ways & Means Committee to correct the "many conspicuous abuses [of the tax law] by highly paid individuals." And two bills to repeal the "Hollywood clause" have been introduced. But protests have already been heard from engineering firms and mining companies. Probable solution: exempt the first $20,000 earned overseas, tax the rest at regular rates...
...Seventh Decision. Next day (noon Friday) Chief Justice Vinson read the majority decision, the court's seventh action on the Rosenberg case. "We think further proceedings ... are unwarranted. A conspiracy was charged and proved . . . the Atomic Energy Act [of 1946] did not repeal or limit the provisions of the Espionage Act [of 1917]. Accordingly, we vacate the stay entered by Mr. Justice Douglas ..." Concurring with Vinson, were: Associate Justices Harold Burton, Tom Clark, Robert Jackson, Sherman Minton, Stanley Reed. Against were Justices Douglas and Hugo Black. Justice Felix Frankfurter could not make up his mind...
...neither Hitlerism nor Huey Longism. In the late '20s and early '30s, Prohibition monopolized public discussion in the U.S. and luridly colored the European view of American life. An overwhelming majority of the U.S. people came to recognize that Prohibition was a mistake-but before Repeal in 1933, the opponents of Prohibition had exaggerated its evil effects as widely as the most fanatic Drys had exaggerated the evils of drink...
...pervasive issue that it shut off discussion of problems that turned out to be far more important. Prohibition polarized Congress, dominated the 1928 election, absorbed the White House, obsessed the press and smothered discussion of other grave questions of the Coolidge-Hoover period. The yatter over Prohibition died with Repeal. In 1953, the responsible leaders of the U.S. will not get public discussion back on the most important issues until they extinguish the McCarthyism debate by an equivalent of Repeal. Since serious people can hardly believe that Communism influences the present Administration, much ground is already cut from under McCarthy...
...unfortunate, but we are watching suspicious individuals," an angry Judge John Connolly said in court. But what Connolly wanted was not what the College wanted. A poll of undergraduates on the Volstead Act showed that 1159 men were for modifi- cation--light wines and beer--781 were for complete repeal, while only 768 were for enforcement...