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When it was over the White House announcer declared that President Roosevelt had just broadcast his 36th radio address since taking office. But to most listeners his speech was his first heart-to-heart with the country at large since last October when, hopeful of price-upping, he started RFC on its fruitless gold-buying campaign (TIME. Oct. 30). What the President had to say last week from his oval study was in the nature of a review of the winter's work and a cheery farewell on the eve of his Pacific vacation. His smooth round voice...
...nothing compared to the demonstrations next day when the legislature in joint session adopted a resolution written by Senores Quezon and Osmena, promising "appreciation and everlasting gratitude to the President and Congress of the U. S. and to the American people." The resolution was adopted on the 36th anniversary of the day when Commodore Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and made Swiss cheese of the impotent royal navy of His Imperial, 12-year-old Majesty, Alfonso XIII, last King of Spain. It marked the formal acceptance on behalf of the Philippines of the new offer of freedom made by Congress...
Having existed for 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, national Prohibition came to an end Dec. 5 at 5:32 p.m. E. S. T. at Salt Lake City when Utah became the 36th State to ratify the 21sat Amendment...
...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...