Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of a series of petitions from community leaders, twelve metropolitan area bankers yesterday called for the repeal of the 1962 legislation ordering the construction of three underpasses along Memorial Drive...
...TAXES: Johnson wants to cut by about $1.5 billion federal excise taxes on retail items, perhaps including luggage, jewelry, cosmetics. Congress is eager indeed to slash excise taxes-so much so that there is considerable agitation to repeal nearly all of them. Frugal Lyndon wants to stop far short of that and may run into rugged opposition to holding the cuts down to his figure. But Albert is slightly optimistic, says: "I do think something can be worked out." The President also wants Congress to ensure quickie tax-cut procedures that would allow fast-but temporary-action should a recession...
...LABOR: While the President asked for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14-B, which allows states to have right-to-work laws that prohibit compulsory union shops, any real presidential pressure to force this measure through Congress would almost certainly create an uproar. It might harden the conservative-liberal schisms in both houses to the point where Johnson could lose valuable support on other more important bills. Though repeal of the clause was demanded in the 1960 and 1964 Democratic platforms, there seems little likelihood the President will risk a fight for it now. Says Mansfield...
...Democrat Calvin L Rampton is about as popular a new Governor as a state ever had, trusted and respected by business, admired by labor. But Rampton is determined to push through a massive bonding program for new state construction, boost both state income and corporate-franchise tax rates, and repeal the state right-to-work law over the opposition of the powerful Mormon Church. Should he succeed in his program to "get Utah moving," Cal Rampton certainly stands to lose some friends...
...Tropical Botanical Garden, but mainly devoted himself to his bachelor estate on Kauai, Hawaii, which he turned into perhaps the world's finest tropical garden with the help of Landscape Architect John Gregg, 64, his constant companion, whom he legally adopted as a son in 1959 after the repeal of an Illinois law preventing one adult from adopting another; in Lihue, Hawaii...