Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beer was available in the country. The last remaining supplies of whisky were being doled out to Arabian-American Oil Co. workers at the rate of three bottles a month. Twenty Aramco workers had already quit, and more were threatening to, unless the company could persuade the King to repeal prohibition. But Ibn Saud gave no sign of giving in. There were even rumors that he is planning, soon to forbid Aramco's foreign women to walk the streets unveiled...
...statement denouncing the appointment of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters' President Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor. It was "incredible," said Taft, that the President-elect should appoint a man who "has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought General Eisenhower's election and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...must, lest the Board seek to turn these facts against us. It would be worse than fallacious to assert, as the administrators might on the strength of these low numbers, that repeal of the afternoon perquisite impedes too few people to warrant concern. That few students are harmed does not make the carving job less unnecessary and unreasonable. In fact, even if this prevented but one undergraduate from carrying on a normal social life, it would be inexcusable. Students are old enough to be trusted, not simply in academic matters, but in personal affairs as well. Whatever the excesses...
...Repeal of the "Buy American Act," which requires that almost all Government purchases must be made from U.S. firms, regardless of price or quality...
Such ill-founded "issues" may influence votes, but they will haunt the party that wins with them. False display of Taft-Hartley repeal as a panacea for labor will make writing a fair labor relations law even more difficult. And to convince the people that the Government is a stamping ground for thieves will make Government service all the more unattractive to the kind of public servants the nation needs...