Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise move, the Senate voted yesterday to repeal the disclaimer affadavit--but not the loyalty oath--required under the National Defense Education Act. Harvard has long objected to the affadavit, and in protest withdrew from the NDEA program in November...
Handled on the floor by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), the repealer was attached to a House bill at a time when the Senate was rushing through a series of minor bills, the Associated Press reported. House concurrence will be necessary if the repeal is to become effective...
During that same period. Commercial Solvents also sold industrial alcohols, another Weizmann byproduct; and in 1933, with the repeal of the 18th Amendment, the company for a time supplied some of the makings of Old Mr. Boston and Gordon's gin. During World War II, Commercial Solvents became the first firm to mass-produce penicillin; it also developed a crystalline form of the drug, which could be transported in bulk without refrigeration...
...champion of Ayub's ambitious land reforms, who was elected from a Sind constituency dominated by feudal landlords who have been hardest hit by land redistribution. Ayub's biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub-sponsored reforms as a ban on polygamy and the traditional Moslem system of instant divorce at the husband's whim (by in toning "I divorce thee" three times...
...others list more children than they really have. Still others claim dead relatives, cats and dogs as dependents. Business deductions run a close second in disputes. This year the taxmen are keeping a closer eye than ever before on entertainment and travel deductions, and the Administration is seeking legislative repeal of the so-called "George M. Cohan rule." Deciding a tax suit filed against the free-spending Broadway actor, a court ruled in 1930 that the IRS had to accept his word that some entertainment deductions were part of his business, even though he could produce no receipts or records...