Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful conservative primary candidates did not propose to repeal the innovations of the New Deal, Fair Deal, and New Frontier; they knew that most voters are upset by the events of the past three years, not the past thirty. And they claimed that Johnson and his supporters have shown little initiative in trying to halt inflation, race riots, and the war in Vietnam. Regarding Vietnam, the primaries did not show that most voters want the United States to abandon the struggle against Hanoi and the Vietcong. They merely want what Americans have wanted in the past: quick favorable results...
Actually, the story of Keynes, who died in 1946, has been told earlier and better by such economists as Sir Roy Harrod, Alvin Hansen, Seymour Harris, Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Heilbroner and John Kenneth Galbraith. Where Lekachman differs from them is in his emphasis on Keynes's repeal...
...give conscriptees a choice of military service or work in hospitals, conservation, the Peace Corps or "a learning corps," and should exempt "philosophical and political as well as religious" objectors. The convention opposed as "undemocratic" the draft's 2-S classification, which defers students. Another resolution urged the repeal of laws banning the sale of marijuana...
Parish pressure has forced some ministers to be less open in their advocacy of the Negro cause. In California, virtually every church leader spoke out in 1964 against a referendum to repeal the state's "fair housing" act. The clergymen's advice was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. Today, even though California's Supreme Court has declared the referendum decision unconstitutional, the law is once again being challenged -but far fewer ministers and priests are defending...
...same stupendous switch in the editorial policies of the ultra-left Daily Worker, were convinced that the Student Union had been following a hard-Stalinist position from the beginning. In any case, the most powerful anti-war group was silenced, and in October, a petition calling for the repeal of the Neutrality Acts received 1000 signatures...