Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgently needed $365 million deficiency appropriations bill, but complained about a rider which forbids aid to any nation shipping strategic materials to Communist countries. Much had been done to stop such trade, he said, and more could be done through diplomatic "cooperation" than through "coercion." He asked Congress to repeal the rider...
...months Sprague insisted that the Oregon State Emergency Board was operating unconstitutionally, finally got the state attorney general to agree with him. This session's legislature is now at work on the Statesman's recommended changes. Last winter, when the Oregon house, under pressure from superpatriots, repealed its two-year-old endorsement of World Federalism, Charlie Sprague said it wasn't a matter of World Federalism itself, but "what worries me is this caving in of judgment in the face of propaganda . . . The risk is that of the closed mind, one driven by fear. [In the repeal...
...House he has been a moderate Administration Democrat, voting with the party leaders on repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, against them on civil rights. But except for a few remarks about the tobacco industry, he has strictly obeyed the seen-but-not-heard injunction directed at all freshman Congressmen. In his debut as a Senator, he plans to follow the same course. "I haven't tried to be anything more as yet than a good listener," explained Tom Underwood, "and I can't think of any place where that quality will seem more distinguished than...
What's Good About It? One of the best arguments for the tax was presented last week by the National Committee for Fair Emergency Excise Taxation, a group of 50 leading businessmen who have long been asking for repeal of the wartime excise taxes on the products they make. Last week they launched an attack on all excise taxes except those on liquor, gasoline and tobacco, and substitution of a flat sales tax on everything except food, rent and medicines. Spokesman for the committee was old New Dealer Leon Henderson onetime head of OPA. A sales tax, he argued...
...Bonanza. Time and circumstances, he found, had worked some major changes on the face of U.S. gangland. Big-scale prostitution, the big pre-World War I racket, had been spoiled by the Mann Act. Repeal had put an end to the era of bootleggers, gang war and magnificent funerals. The U.S.'s fast-buck boys had moved in on a bonanza which proved richer than their wildest dreams. The new bonanza: big-time gambling, organized on a big-time scale...