Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeal rounded the two-thirds mark without a break in its stride last week when Washington became the 24th State to approve the 21st Amendment. Voting by legislative districts, the State chose 95 Wet delegates, four Dry ones to its ratification convention in October. The popular vote...
When the 36th State deposits its ratification of the 21st Amendment with the Secretary of State, the National Recovery Act requires the President to proclaim the date of Repeal. Much depends on whether that date is before or after Jan.1. If it is before, the gasoline tax drops back to 1? per gal. and the dividend tax becomes void as of Jan.1. If it is after, these taxes continue to operate throughout the calendar year of 1934 despite the fact that liquor taxes will also be collected during this period...
...tied to its tail." Last week humming bird and Washington Monument were well on their way to Mars when Senator Sheppard's own mammoth Texas became the 23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment was ratified by a 114,000 majority. Even Senator Sheppard's own Texarkana turned Wet against him. Simultaneously the Texas constitution was amended to permit sale of 3.2% beer...
...personal popularity that she defeated two male rivals more than 4-to-1. Republicans did not even bother to nominate an opponent for her in the November election. No one was happier over her success than her bosom friends, the Franklin D. Roosevelts. Simultaneously Arizona became the 21st State to ratify the Repeal Amendment to the Constitution. Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year...
...Golden Wedding Rye) sold 230,000 shares of its stock at $15 a share. Advertisements ("a matter of record only") had not even appeared before the stock was whipped up to $46 a share on a when-issued basis. ¶ Within 24 hours after Illinois had formally ratified the 21st Amendment last week, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., potent Canadian liquor company (Canadian Club Rye), announced that it would build a huge distillery at Peoria. Construction will begin in January with an initial investment of $1,000,000. The distillery will consume 20,000 bushels of grain per day, will...