Word: abolishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dissatisfied with this declaration, Senator Bingham produced for the extreme Wets a minority report calling for immediate repeal, with ratification also by State conventions and pledging the party's "best efforts" to "promote temperance, abolish the saloon, whether open or concealed, and bring the liquor traffic under complete public supervision and control...
...President de Valera proposes to abolish the oath to George V by unilateral (one-sided) action of the Free State Chamber & Senate, refusing to arbitrate that issue...
Right & Wrong? Amid the angry murmurs of Conservative M. P.'s, bland Labor M. P. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, onetime Solicitor General, rose and gave his learned opinion that the Free State has the right to abolish the oath its Deputies and Senators swear to His Majesty, this right resting squarely on the Statute of Westminister passed by the London Parliament (TIME, Dec. 7). Conservative Winston Churchill agreed...
...conference, received a cold douche shortly before he left London, was visited at No. 10 Downing St. by intense, teacherish President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. In five minutes the Scotsman and the Irishman had disagreed flatly concerning the Free State's right to abolish her Deputies' oath of fealty to England's King. Tight-lipped and hard-eyed, President de Valera left for Dublin and the Prime Minister's car sped from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. As he has done several times before, George V succeeded in bucking up Scot MacDonald...
Before they are incorporated in the booklet to be issued next year, the parietal rules should be revised to make quite plain that in the granting of permission to entertain woman guests, the Masters and Tutors have complete discretion. The Masters themselves, in addition, should abolish the rule requiring twenty-four hours notice before women guests may be brought into the House. That rule is a minor nuisance which frequently becomes a major embarrassment when guests arrive unexpectedly...