Word: repeals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days ago Mrs. Henry Peabody offered "Green Walls", her home in Beverly, for sale. Yesterday she quitted the city for the sunny south. Her departure was precipitated by the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act. A nine year old grandson waits her in New York. With greater political wisdom than his grandmother he read the handwriting on the green walls some months ago and fled this commonwealth steeped in sin and vice...
...Meanwhile, the wets must do the worrying. We have predicted that the repeal of the state enforcement law would be followed by increased drunkenness. It is up to the wets to see that our prediction does not come true. I sincerely hope that they will succeed, for I dread an orgy of drunkenness, of moonshining and rum-running more than I dread any other plague...
...much to lift the party above their rather lack-lustre past for some years. The United States has been irked by the procrastination of the Republicans where this issue is concerned. The Democratic landslide was as much a search for remedies as an expression of public faith. The repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts may well cast its shadow on the national elections...
Chore 1. His Majesty must open Parliament. Scot MacDonald brought him his speech, written by the Cabinet. He must say, chiefly, that "my Government" proposes to ask the Parliament to repeal the Trade Union...
...statute books by the last British Government (that of Conservative Stanley Baldwin) this act was designed to prevent a recurrence of the British general strike (TIME, May 10, 1926 et seq.), is detested by every Laborite. Clamor within the party has finally forced Laborite MacDonald to seek its repeal, to risk almost certain defeat on the one issue on which the Liberals, who hold the balance of power in Parliament, may be expected to vote against...