Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest crisis was triggered by a strike of 7,000 apartment-house service employees-doormen, elevator operators, handymen- against the landlords of 1,500 rent-controlled dwellings. The workers, whose average weekly pay is $85, sought an $18 raise. The owners responded by demanding repeal of the city's rent-control law, an anachronistic World War II anti-inflationary measure that makes no economic sense but is beloved by voters- and politicians- because it keeps many rents below market levels. Caught in the bind, a quarter of a million tenants found themselves without hot water, heat, elevator service, garbage...
Last week the Supreme Court upheld the California decision. Speaking for a narrow, five-man majority, Justice Byron R. White declared that in its decision the California Supreme Court had not forbidden Californians either to repeal fair-housing laws or to enact laws making the state "neutral." All it did was to "reasonably" conclude that Section 26 affirmed discrimination as a state-guaranteed freedom. "We are dealing with a provision which does not just repeal an existing law forbidding racial discrimination," said White. "Section 26 was intended to authorize, and does authorize, racial discrimination in the housing market...
...state's first civil rights bill since Reconstruction-a low-pressure measure setting up a commission to promote racial harmony-and opened the way for such dry cities as Nashville and Memphis to vote on the sale of liquor by the drink. This week it is expected to repeal the old "monkey law" that prohibits the teaching of evolution. Alabama has redistributed gas-tax funds and other revenues, increasing the slice for urban Jefferson County (Birmingham) from $1,700,000 this year to an estimated $6,400,000 next year...
...powers of endurance-are no laughing matter. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, with lusty behind-the-scenes bravos from the Administration, which looks longingly toward the Long green in campaign treasure promised by his act, he has been in the catbird seat right from the beginning. Repeal of his act was tacked on as an amendment to the important investment tax-credit bill* sought by business and the Administration. Long simply faced down Senate custom-which dictates that a chairman protect committee bills from outside amendments-and allowed a plethora of fellow Senators' pet projects...
Long met his third defeat last week after a 52-to-46 vote upholding an amendment by Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore that would repeal the Long act. As they have ever since the beginning of the struggle, Senate Republicans voted virtually en masse against the act, which would give the traditionally money-short Democrats extra campaign funds. Even with his latest rebuff, Long was not about to quit. "If need be," he said, "we ought to stay here until Christmas or New Year's to do what is best for the country." Snapped Mansfield: "I cannot believe...