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...Repeal the law, abolish the agency, fire everybody in it, and start all over again," he expostulated. Denham pinned the failure of the Taft-Hartley Act not on the law itself, but on its administration. He said the basic principles of the act are sound, but its execution is poor...
...this sort of thing was to bring the annexation issue to a head. They began circulating petitions calling for a special election, hired a hillbilly band to rally support. When election day came, a few interested citizens dutifully trooped to the polls. By a slim margin they voted to abolish the Pleasant Grove school district and, with it, the Pleasant Grove school board...
Last year the islands voted 99 to 1 to abolish the Sultanate altogether and establish a republic. Amin Didi was unanimously elected first president. Amin, 43, who visits London twice a year and rules with a firm but fair hand, accepted the job because, as he himself said, he could find no one else as worthy...
Commentators in your Dec. 8 Letters column on Detroit's Board of Commerce proposal to abolish all U.S. tariffs overlook the most fundamental principle underlying foreign trade. Foreign imports are of no benefit to a country unless they consist of products which that country cannot profitably produce...
...Lloyd George admitted, of 8 billion eggs produced in the country during the past year, only a little more than half had found their way to the shops. A great part of the rest had gone into the black markets, which is why Lloyd George wanted to abolish rationing...