Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just who would sell the Chief Joseph transformers was still moot. The Administration, before it can make any "trade, not aid" drive really effective, will have to force a showdown in Congress on repeal of the Buy American...
...Senators will weaken their strong moral case against anti-civil rights filibusters by turning themselves into the pots which call the kettle black. The Senators should let the tidelands bill pass, knowing that as soon as the electorate wakes up there will be votes enough to repeal it. If they stop now, they can then continue their fight to end the archaic institution of the filibuster without the tinge of political hypocrisy...
Each volunteer takes the following pledge when he joins the movement: "We, the oppressed people of South Africa, hereby solemnly pledge ourselves to carry on a relentless struggle to repeal the unjust laws as laid down in the plan of action of the African National Congress, supported by the South African Indian Congress, the Colored Peoples Organization, and other freedom-loving peoples. We shall do all in our power, to the utmost limits of endurance and sacrifice, to carry out the Congress Call against unjust laws which subject our people to political servility, economic misery and social degradation. From this...
...attention was arrested by the startling similarity of your first "conviction" to some words of Cicero found in his De Re Publica, III, 33. TIME says, "That God's order . . . includes a moral code . . . not subject to man's repeal, suspension or amendment." Cicero said, "There is indeed a true law . . . unchanging, everlasting ... It is not allowable to repeal, amend or suspend...
Labor. Before election last November labor-union leaders refused to think of anything less than outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The captains of industry were generally at the other pole. By last week, Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin had some of the smartest and toughest eggs in labor and industry (e.g., the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Big Coal's Harry Moses, Big Steel's Ben Moreell) ready to sit down together to study amendments. The Administration hoped-perhaps too optimistically-to get agreement on labor policy...