Word: repeals
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...considered petty, was necessary for the preservation of law and order. Cried Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of England, speaking in the House of Lords in 1810 against a bill to abolish the death penalty for shoplifting: "I am certain depredations to an unlimited extent would immediately be committed . . . Repeal this law and see the contrast-no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions that, on his return, every vestige of his property will be swept off by the hardened robber." But the tides of history were running against Lord Ellenborough...
...assault. His strategy: pigeonhole the Holman resolution in Rhyne's own Committee on World Peace through Law. It worked. After Malone's speech and others, the question came to a vote, wound up with a ringing 127-68 defeat for Holman and an added push for repeal of the Connally Reservation...
Thus bolstered, the drive for repeal focused once again on Congress, where a resolution for repeal, sponsored by Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, is before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Christian Herter, Attorney General William Rogers and Vice President Nixon, all have gone on record favoring the repeal of the Connally Reservation. Arkansas' William Fulbright, committee chairman, is in favor too. But Democrat Fulbright hesitates to send the repealer to the Senate until he sees signs that he can muster the two-thirds vote necessary for repeal. His biggest problem, says...
...message had not been reshaped, but it had been restyled to make it softer. The President made only two specific recommendations: 1) expansion of the long-term soil bank "conservation reserve" to 60 million acres from the present 28 million, and 2) a new wheat program that would combine repeal of all wheat production controls with a lower support price, based on market prices rather than on the outdated "parity" formula. A new wheat program was "imperatively needed," said Ike-the present program is costing the Federal Government $1,000 a minute, $1.5 million...
BLOW TO FEATHERBEDDING was delivered by New York State's Public Service Commission, which unanimously urged state legislature to repeal 47-year-old full-crew laws for railroads. It said that laws, which add extra members to train crews in New York, fail to improve safety but cost railroads about $4,400,000 a year, lead to "a waste of manpower and money...