Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week's end the America First Committee was working overtime to prevent transfer of more destroyers and bombers to Britain, was girding its loins for the next session of Congress, to fight repeal of the Johnson Act (no loans to defaulters on World War I loans) and the Neutrality Act (cash & carry aid only...
They went on record as "favoring the complete exemption of agricultural labor from the Wages & Hours Law, the National Labor Relations Act, the Social Security Act and similar legislation," as opposed to repeal of local anti-picketing ordinances in California, to the closed shop and the "hiring hall...
...with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, and emerged saying, "My discussion on conditions was optimistic-providing we get some help from you." Washington's mood about aid to Britain probably kept Lord Lothian from being too hopeful. The President had decided to postpone any attempt to repeal the Johnson Act to permit British credits until the next Congress meets in January. There were stories that President Roosevelt was becoming disposed to go slow on aid to Britain, possibly fearful that Britain might soon be past...
...Washington, most observers long since had given the lie to the President's assertion that loans to Britain had not yet been considered. They believed that a primary Roosevelt request of the new January Congress would be repeal of the Johnson Act, which bars new loans to debt defaulters such as Great Britain. (Foregone conclusion, observers added, was swift passage of such repeal.) How could he avoid it, they asked? There were a dozen signs that aid to Britain was the foremost Administration policy...
...tire of trying to predict what unpredictable Mr. Roosevelt will do, people predicted: the release of 75 more destroyers, a deal to turn over to England a large proportion of the U. S. merchant marine, an assembly plant to turn out standardized ships for Britain in wholesale quantities, the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the repeal of the Johnson Act (prohibiting loans to govern ments in default on World War I debts). In official circles, outright repeal of the Johnson Act or a scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry, one centre of the British...