Word: repeals
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...days the filibuster continued in friendly fashion. Then the Southerners ran out of words, and the sponsor of the amendment, Florida's Spessard Holland, rose to deliver the death blow. A Southern conservative, Holland had led the successful campaign to repeal the poll tax in his own state in 1937; since 1949 he has annually introduced an anti-poll-tax amendment in the Senate. Holland moved that the Senate take up a resolution to make a national monument of Alexander Hamilton's house in New York City...
...Repeal the Connally Reservation...
...Cambridge City Council yesterday voted 5 to 4 against recording itself in favor of a bill before the Massachusetts Legislature to repeal Proportional Representation...
House Bill 1493, "an act to repeal Proportional representation and preferential voting in this Commonwealth," was introduced in the Legislature in January. The citizens of Cambridge, by a narrow margin, voted in last November's election to retain...
...charges about Harvard's role in the Inner Belt controversy came at the first day of hearings on a bill to repeal the veto power over Federal highway construction given to Cambridge and other Massachusetts communities last year. Toomey vigorously opposed revocation of the veto power in his speech Tuesday...