Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, only half of the member colleges in the ACE replied to a special questionnaire on NDEA, which was circulated last month. 1200 questionnaires were sent out, with replies favoring repeal of the affidavit and 178 opposing repeal...
American colleges favor repeal of the disclaimer affidavit in the National Defense Education Act by a 3 to 1 margin, the American Council on Education reported recently...
Righteousness Run Riot. Among sophisticated Indians there is a growing sentiment for repeal, especially in regions like Bombay, which not only lose revenue through prohibition but must pay the heavy cost of enforcement. New Delhi's Hindustan Times claims that "crime has been on the increase ever since prohibition was introduced" and that gangs "terrorize whole localities and have made stabbing and shooting an everyday affair in the city." But though many of them privately agree with the Hindustan Times, few members of India's ruling Congress Party dare to say so openly for fear of exposing themselves...
...meeting of the Central Prohibition Committee. Almost to a man, committee members agreed that bootlegging is on the increase and "at least in urban areas" prohibition has failed. None of this, however, deterred Minister of State (and noted dry) Balwant Datar, who insisted any suggestion of relaxation or repeal was a "counsel of despair." Instead, Datar called for sterner laws and more rigorous enforcement, and in a final example of righteousness run riot, urged that in all trials involving prohibition violatiors "the burden of proof be shifted from the state to the accused...
Prohibition: "I was always against it. I was one of the leaders for Repeal and faced the best political maneuverer I have ever dealt with, Wayne B. Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League. He produced an absolute miracle...