Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find where the fate of National Prohibition will eventually be decided, look away down South in Dixie. Next week Alabama. Arkansas and Tennessee will hold elections to ratify the 21st Amendment. "If all three agree to Repeal," said Postmaster General Farley last week, "it will all be over...
Sixteen States, in which live 43% of the nation's population, had successively turned thumbs down on national Prohibition by ratifying the 21st Amendment. The Prohibition Bureau had just had its personnel reduced 40% in the interest of Government economy, leaving a staff of less than 2,000 to enforce the Volstead Act from coast to coast. Andrew John Volstead, author of that Act, had just lost his $4,500 per year job as counsel to the Prohibition administration at St. Paul. Nevertheless, the scores & scores of white-clad, earnest ladies of the W. C. T. U. remained undaunted...
Only once did Mrs. Palmer let down the bars. Managing her Son Honore's campaign for a seat on the City Council, she shrewdly invited 500 members of the 21st Ward Marching Club to the Castle. More at home in West Side brothels and saloons, they arrived behind a brass band. As they filed in Mrs. Palmer, in elaborate evening clothes and a diamond necklace, personally thanked each & every one of them for their political efforts in her son's behalf. Honore Palmer was elected, served two terms...
Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wyoming, New York, Delaware, Nevada-and last week Illinois, by a 4-to-1 landslide, and Indiana, by 2-to-1, voted to ratify the 21st Amendment. Illinois, home State of the W. C. T. U. (at Evanston) had been conceded Wet since its 1931 Repeal referendum. Indiana, home of militantly Dry Senator Arthur Robinson, seat of the Northern Ku Klux Klan and of the Prohibition Party's last national convention, provided the first real test of strength of U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
...ordered by the Legislature for November by rallying 242,000 petitioners, 88,000 more than necessary. Instead of voting for or against Repeal in November, Ohio voters will ballot on whether or not to hold such a referendum. The Dry maneuver lessened the possibility of 36 States ratifying the 21st Amendment before the end of the vear...