Word: repeals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effect was to prevent operation of birth-control clinics: the last one in Connecticut was shut down in 1939 after two doctors and a nurse were prosecuted under the 1879 law-Cannon also argued that in virtually every session of the state legislature since 1923, bills to amend or repeal the 1879 law have been introduced and all have failed. Therefore, contended Cannon, the law "represents the will of the people." That was a way of saying that Connecticut politicians of whatever creed cringe before the presumed power of the Roman Catholic Church, which counts 1.138,600 adherents...
...under advisement. Whether it would ever issue a ruling was not certain. Frankfurter had laid the basis for an opinion that the case was hypothetical, since nobody had been punished under the law. But the unenforceable law would remain on the books unless the court acted. There are two repeal bills in the Connecticut legislature, but neither seems to have a chance of passage...
President Pusey Wednesday saw little chance that Congress would pass a substantially unaltered Kennedy education bill and repeal the disclaimer affidavit provision of the National Defense Education Act during the current session...
Pusey called the affidavit "the real stumbling block," but said that personally he would like to see repeal of the loyalty oath requirement as well...
...Kennedy's statement to the effect that the size of the job done by a civil servant will be more important than the size of his staff, budget and office is a direct threat to all loyal bureaucrats. Arise one and all and prevent this wanton attempt to repeal Parkinson...