Word: rescinding
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...Brownell's plan, despite opposition from both factions, is a temperate solution to an inherited problem. Always outspokenly in favor of federal control, Harry Truman signed the oil over to the Navy last January for defense use. His successor could rescind Truman's fare-well gesture with a second executive order. But to legally deed the land to the states requires a Congressional quit claims bill...
...announcement of the four-bit board cut, Mr. Heaman spoke generously about students voluntarily limiting food and juice portions. In return, students can at least expect cooperation when they legally leave Cambridge for a few days. No drum rolls or bombast is needed. The secret order should rescind itself just as quietly as it came...
...number of legislatures in favor of this amendment has crept alarmingly near the number needed for a convention, lower and middle-income groups have begun a long-delayed counterattack. So far, they have convinced seven states to rescind their resolutions. Massachusetts should become the eighth. The bill to repeal the resolution, now before the Constitutional Law Committee, should be reported favorably and passed. Since no one can accurately predict future expenses, the Government should not limit its future budgets according to pre-War II needs...
...week's end, the Associated Press Managing Editors Association asked the President to rescind his "censorship at the source." Said the association: it is a "dangerous instrument of news suppression...
Liberal leader Clement Davies rose last week in the House of Commons and said: "I beg to move that this House deplores the decision to continue the banishment of Tshekedi Khama from the Bamangwato Territory . . . and calls upon His Majesty's Government to rescind the order and allow him to dwell freely within the territory of his tribe...