Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...36th State to ratify Prohibition was Nebraska...
Thus did whiskey-producing Britain greet the 5-to-4 vote by which Utah last week became the 36th Repeal State.* Americans, knowing for some time that Repeal was a certainty, were not excited or much surprised that quiet Utah should have been the deciding State. Pennsylvania and Ohio were the 34th and 35th-Pennsylvania by a majority of 1,000,000 votes, Ohio by 800,000. Had Utah gone Dry the 36th State would have been Bourbon-producing Kentucky, where Repeal was last week ushered in with violence and bloodshed...
...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...
...excess profits tax ceases to function for the taxable year following that in which Repeal occurs. Thus if, for example, the President proclaims Repeal Dec. 13. 1933 (the week after the ratification convention of the 36th State), corporations will pay on their 1933 excess profits on March 15, 1934 and no more thereafter. But if Repeal does not come until Jan. 5, 1934, corporations will have to pay excess profits taxes for 1934 on March 15, 1935. Most corporate taxpayers were ready last week to gamble on Repeal during...
...Tennessee ratified the 20th Amendment to the Constitution to eliminate "lame duck" sessions of Congress. They were the 32nd and 33rd States to do so. Next day Idaho and New Mexico fell into line. Then, over the weekend, began a race to see which State would be the 36th which would complete ratification. Favorite was Massachusetts, benefited by one hour in time. Georgia and Utah were champing at the bit. At this point a dark horse developed. In Jefferson City, Mo. members of the General Assembly were secretly telephoned to be on hand at 10 o'clock, three hours...