Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been required to sign disclaimer affidavits, denying that they belong to, support, or "believe in" subversive organizations. Harvard has consistently opposed such requirements, and twice--after passage of the National Science Foundation Act (1950) and the National Defense Education Act (1958)--it joined other universities in forcing Congress to repeal disclaimer clauses...
Pepper pointed out that 80 per cent of the house members had been disenfranchised by the ruling, and said he would present a petition with the names of more than half of the members calling for repeal of the ruling at tomorrow's meeting of the committee...
Commenting on the November election, Farmer said that the repeal of the Rumford Act in California was "the one disappointment." The state law had prohibited discrimination in housing...
Farmer added that the constitutionality of the repeal was being challenged in court. If the election result is not thrown out, Farmer said, CORE could only watch vigilantly to prevent the repeal of other anti-discrimination laws...
...referendum and initiative measures in dozens of states last week, none was more bitterly fought or attracted more attention than California's Proposition 14 to repeal the Rumford Act (TIME, Sept. 25). Californians, by a vote of 3,656,000 to 1,894,000, overwhelmingly approved the proposition...