Word: rescinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand, Mr. President, that the Senator from Pennsylvania, Joseph F. Guffey either prove the charge he has made, or rescind his statement...
Mother Advocate, Harvard's oldest publication and the nation's oldest college literary periodical, rose from its grave last night to announce the starting of a new competition tonight at 7:30 o'clock and to rescind its mid-July "cease and desist" order. Reason for the resurrection was the "considerable improvement in finances", Advocate members announced...
...Leon brandished his only effective weapon over them-his jawbone. By last week he reminded even his friends of Hugh Johnson at the climax of NRA. Chrysler, Ford, Hudson, Nash, Studebaker had all announced price increases ranging from $10 to $53 a car. Henderson wired them a request to rescind the increase; Chrysler refused. So Leon let Chrysler have it. If everybody were as uncooperative as Chrysler, he said, the whole country's price stability would be undermined...
...Asked Ford, Studebaker, Chrysler, Nash and Hudson, who raised prices $10 to $53 a car last fortnight, to rescind their decision. He scolded them for not consulting him first...
...Retain in Congress power to rescind the Lend-Lease authority by concurrent resolution (simple majority) of both Houses. Meaning: not very much. As an academic argument against its effectiveness, Article 1, section 7 of the Constitution requires Presidential approval of all concurrent Congressional resolutions except to adjourn (customarily only those embracing legislation are submitted to the President). A two-thirds majority in each House would be needed to override his veto. Practically, such a resolution would require majority public opinion for passage. (This amendment, submitted by Representative Everett Dirksen of Pekin, Ill., was hailed as Republican coup-of-the-week...