Word: abolishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finding that U. S. citizens were spending millions on foreign visas - while little money was accruing from foreign tourists in the U. S. - the State Department started negotiations in 1925 to abolish or reduce the $10 charge. France last week was the 29th nation to comply...
Whatever may to the merits of the hill to abolish capital punishment now being considered by the legislature, Professor Chafee's active leadership in its behalf will certainly stimulate interest in the question. Although the individual opinions of the layman are likely to be determined by his emotions and prejudices, the essentials of the problem are fundamentally of a scientific nature. Consequently the expert judgement of a law professor is particularly valuable in assisting the legislators to come to intelligent conclusions...
...voice, and in eloquent tones deplores the lack of Terpsichorean favor from the weak-kneed principles of tradition. The class of 1931 demands a sophomore dance! Financially, a sophomore dance would be a greater failure than a junior prom. Two financial failures would be a cordial invitation to abolish the Freshman Jubilee...
...rumor which has reached the Yard to the effect that the Class of 1930 may, possibly, see fit to abolish the traditional Junior Dance, has aroused the approbation of at least one of the inhabitants of that precinct. For the Junior Dance, or Prom--as you choose to look at it--has been slowly dying for the last ten years; it is time to bury the corpse...
...press. We shall discuss stabilization of the currency and negotiate a foreign loan. We shall revise the present obnoxious anti-foreign mining law passed by [the late] Prime Minister Jon Bratiano in 1924, as well as other laws which have made Rumania a most unpopular country abroad. We shall abolish restrictions on foreign capital, which henceforth shall have the same opportunities as local capital...