Word: abolitionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But soon, political factions lined up alongside Crusader Merlin. The Moscowliners, claiming that the bill was all their own idea, ordered all left-wingers to vote against "a typical plague of bourgeois society." The Communists found allies in their old adversaries the Christian Democrats. "We can't afford," said...
It was a noisy try, but it failed. Interior Minister Mario Scelba himself rose to present the government's hearty endorsement of the Merlin bill. For the first time in anybody's memory the Communists joined in enthusiastic applause for a Scelba speech. The united front against vice...
1) Progressive abolition of quantitive restrictions on Western European trade, i.e., import quotas (the OEEC nations have promised to do away with import quotas on 50% of their private trade).
3) Abolition of "double pricing," i.e., the practice now common in many Western European countries of selling commodities at low prices at'home, while selling them abroad for all the traffic will bear.
Among his accomplishments: abolition of segregation in New Jersey's National Guard, an increase in teachers' minimum salaries (from $1,200 to $2,200), a sickness-liability law covering 1,600,000 workers and a $50 million veterans' housing program.