Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain's Jewry was stunned. Its most eminent member, the great theologian Isaac Abrabanel, who had risen to be financial adviser to the Crown, pleaded with Ferdinand to rescind the edict of expulsion. According to Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...
...Strip, Rescind, Scrutinize. In this hopelessness and exhilaration Democrats and Republicans around the country went into the closing days of one of the strangest political campaigns on record. Republicans were confident now that they would win more than enough seats to give them control of the House of Representatives. Massachusetts' Joe Martin, already seeing himself Speaker of the House, went on the radio to tell what he would...
...would call a meeting of the G.O.P. Steering Committee immediately. He would strip the Executive branch "of its emergency and wartime powers . . . take the meddling hands of political despots out of the kitchens of America, out of the farmhouses, out of the grocery stores," rescind some of "those 76,541 directives, grants, orders, permissions and prohibitions issued by the Executive Department," look into "the waste and graft," lower the taxes, and scrutinize foreign affairs for "secret executive agreements." Said Joe Martin: "We Republicans will be ready...
...Gave advance warning that it would seek to have Congress rescind the controversial veterans on-the-job training law, keeping alive its feud with the Veterans Administration over the $200 training subsistence ceiling...
With threats and pleas, he has held the C.I.O. together. When the Auto Workers were set to rescind the wartime no-strike pledge in 1944, Murray stemmed the tide with a speech delivered under heavy emotion. When occasion demands, he can be tough. When Sidney Hillman began to show signs of getting too independent with his Political Action Committee, Phil Murray cracked down with an order that P.A.C. must operate through the 39 regional C.I.O. offices, which he controls...