Word: repeals
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...late U.S. District Court Judge William Clark, who anticipated Repeal by three years in a 1930 decision which held that the 18th Amendment was invalid because it flouted the will of the people. Appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Appeals Court in West Germany after the Nürnberg trials, Clark kept up a running feud with U.S. High Commissioner James Conant, in 1953 refused to leave the bench when notified of his dismissal, was finally dislodged when the State Department yanked his diplomatic passport. Judge Clark died...
...with authority. Unfortunately, he lacks all control over his plot, and he makes most of his points by bending a reader's ear till it aches. After a flurry of melodrama, Vangel ends up with a whole new set of values. Here they are: "I would like to repeal suffrage for women. I would like to end all war. I would like to pull down all prejudices and ignorance and persuade men to live a rational life...
...better hope, he said, but emphasis should be on relieving tensions instead of coercing nations. "We should rely on strengthening world law, and on obtaining peace through law rather than through force," he declared, noting that the United States has so far hindered world law by falling to repeal the Connally Amendment...
...most prominent voices in the financial world declared that the 15-year-old reserve requirement, long considered the soul of economic orthodoxy, has outlived its usefulness. Said Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., addressing the annual meeting of the Investment Bankers Association in Hollywood Fla.: "Repeal of the 25% gold-backing provision would be a logical step in the further improvement of our international monetary framework." Alexander's proposal came when the flight of gold from the U.S., caused by a worsening balance of U.S. payments, was approaching a crisis. The Treasury Department announced last...
Recognizing that the world is waiting to see what the U.S.'s next move will be Alexander added that any change "probably should wait until our balance of payments position shows more clearly the results of our buckling down to the basic Problems. In that favorable setting, repeal the gold reserve requirement will be for what it is-a change to a more realistic statement of the strength of our gold position...