Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote of eight to one, the City Council yesterday joined Councillor Andrew T. Trodden in a resolution opposing any attempts to repeal the veto power. Senate Bill #103, which will be discussed this afternoon by the Senate Committee on Highways, makes such an attempt...
...giving any additional nations or alliances atomic weapons, invite inspection of its Project Vela underground tests, promote the creation of a U.N. Disarmament Agency, convert the germ warfare research center in Maryland into a U.N. world health center, urge U.N. inspection of nuclear facilities in Israel and Egypt, and repeal the Connally Reservation giving the U.S. the right to decide if international disputes involving the U.S. shall be heard in the U.N. World Court...
What is unusual, however, is that even when an ambitious attorney general began to enforce the letter of these laws, and consequently to infringe on the occupations and recreation of many people, no action was taken for repeal. Certainly, this summer in his vigorous clampdown on Cape Cod businesses operating on Sunday, and again this fall, in his treatment of entertainments on certain holidays, attorney general Edward J. McCormack, Jr. emphasized better than could any sociological investigators the obsolescence and irrelevance of these laws...
...Umbrella. Under the umbrella of antiCommunism, many of the ultra-rightists pursue their own special goals and grind their own axes, ranging from respectable conservative politics and economics through segregation, anti-fluoridation, isolationism, higher tariffs and income tax repeal. Federal income tax, says Dr. Carleton Campbell, a veteran ultra who organized the recent Greenwich meeting, is "one of the steps on the Communist chart to take over a country" by taxing the middle class into impotence. "Our goal is to prevent world government," says Merwin K. Hart, president of the National Economic Council. "And we don't like fluoridation...
...next decades, winemaking became a tidy local industry. But when Prohibition came, the vintners either ground out tons of grape juice or sadly closed down their presses and let their plump grapes wrinkle up into raisins. After repeal, the vineyards recovered only slowly, did not begin to produce wine they could be proud of till the late 1930s...