Word: repeals
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...Government to encourage Big Business is to let it alone. Lilienthal takes a different tack. He proposes that Congress pass a Basic Economic Act pro claiming its prime concern with "productivity and the ethical and economic distribution of this productivity." Lilienthal's law would automatically repeal "the Sherman and Clayton acts, and all other existing laws, administrative policies and judicial interpretations of the antitrust laws" insofar as they were inconsistent with the Basic Economic Act. Under its terms, "the legal test Bigness would have to face would thenceforth be whether the particular aspect of size challenged by the Government...
...repeal the excess-profits...
...Repeal the law, abolish the agency, fire everybody in it, and start all over again," he expostulated. Denham pinned the failure of the Taft-Hartley Act not on the law itself, but on its administration. He said the basic principles of the act are sound, but its execution is poor...
LABOR. The Taft-Hartley law will have to be dealt with. There are signs that this issue may not be explosive. In 1949, Senator Taft agreed to 28 clarifying amendments, but labor then was fighting for outright repeal as a symbolic goal. Last week A.F.L. President George Meany, filled with what seemed to be a cooperative spirit, said he is now willing to settle for amendment rather than repeal...
Among the newer fronts: the National Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs, the Citizens' Emergency Defense Conference (for the repeal of the Smith Act), the Committee for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact, the National Labor Conference for Peace...