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...years ago, Calkins led another crusade. He headed a drive to repeal an 18-year-old loyalty oath that Cleveland had required of all its school employees...
They were serious, for as national agitation rose among the working class for repeal of the amendment before the first dry day, July 1, 1919, the CRIMSON made only the slight concession that light wines and beers should be removed from...
...British are preparing to remove from the nation's statute books most of what remains of the great charter. Under a proposed statute repeal bill, some 200 British laws that are "no longer of practical utility" are likely to be scrapped soon by Parliament, including one "prohibiting common night walkers in the universities." More significant, all but two of the remaining twelve provisions of Magna Carta are also to be struck from the books...
...person except her husband." Another proclaimed: "If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age." The legislation introduced in Parliament will repeal ten other clauses that have either gone unenforced in recent years or have been superseded by new laws. Among them is one that ordered the removal of all weirs (dams) from the Thames and other rivers, and a second that restricts the King's right to seize the lands of debtors...
...Junk. When Britain's Lord High Chancellor explained the statute repeal bill to the House of Lords last month, the scene was characteristically somnolent, with at least five peers asleep on their scarlet benches and a couple of others halfheartedly straining to hear the proceedings with old-fashioned black ear trumpets. But when the Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, described the proposal as "a start towards getting rid of a lot of junk," his words rang like alarm bells. Leaping to his feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner...