Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. bigwigs gathered in Bal Harbour, Fla., for their annual executive-council meeting last week, they were in a grim mood. They were mostly unhappy over Congress' second refusal to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows states to enact right-to-work laws. Pete McGavin, executive secretary of the federation's maritime-trades department, spoke for many of his colleagues when he observed: "If President Johnson had put as much emphasis on 14(b) as he did on his wife's beautification program, the measure would have gone through...
...Leader Everett Dirksen warned potential no-shows: "By God, you're going to be here." To a man, they were. Thus, after a Dirksen-led filibuster had tied up the Senate for a total of 13 days in an attempt to thwart the Administration's bill to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, the issue finally came to a vote...
...Humphrey when the tally was completed, "there are 51 yeas and 48 nays. Two-thirds of the Senators present and voting not having voted in the affirmative, the cloture motion is rejected." Two days later Mansfield tried again; this time the vote was 50 to 49 for cloture. Thus repeal of 14(b) was dead for this session. The bill would remain on the Senate calendar, Mansfield said, "with the inscription: R.I.P...
Johnson has promised that he will not hesitate to ask for tax increases if he finds them necessary. Indeed, he has already asked for reinstatement of some excise taxes repealed last year. This reinstatement, however, is poor policy. If there was a reason for eliminating the excises, then there is a reason for leaving them that way. Repeal or enactment of excise taxes is a decision about tax structure that should not be changed according to the year-by-year exigencies of fiscal policy...
Berlin expects the Superior Court to pass the case on to the Supreme Judicial Court, where it will be argued in late April. Because the oath is no innocuous, Berlin believes that its repeal may set a precedent for the repeal of many state teachers' oaths which are more severe...