Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCann sponsored the act that directed the Metropolitan District Commission to build the underpasses. Campbell has promised to introduce a bill to repeal the legislation if he is elected...
...noted that the MDC was directed to build the underpasses by a 1962 act of the Massachusetts Legislature, and that attempts to repeal that act have failed. "At this late date," he said, "Bernays' only recourse would be with the Governor's office...
...sidestepped California's hottest state issue: repeal of the Rumford Act against racial discrimination in housing (TIME, Sept. 25). In agricultural areas, Murphy wins votes for his stand favoring the bracero program, under which fruit and vegetable farmers hire immigrant labor from Mexico. "You have to remember," explains Murphy, "that Americans can't do that kind of work. It's too hard. Mexicans are really good at that. They are built low to the ground, you see, so it is easier for them to stoop...
...perfect partisan. Cried he: "Senator Goldwater, a self-styled conservative, has stumbled upon and seized and given currency to a corrupted version of conservatism whose acceptance defies history and the accepted conservative philosophy. A man who says 'My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them'-that is not the language of a conservative. It is the language of nihilism. Nihilism is the politics of catastrophe." When he left Georgia, Hubert Humphrey's ears still rang with the sound of a standing ovation at a Deep Dixie center of learning...
...Committee believes that the MDC, by transplanting the trees in December, can present the legislature with a fait accompli when attempts are made next January and February to repeal the act authorizing the three underpasses on Memorial Drive...