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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flags and bunting flew in Topeka, Kan. An enormous portrait of the inmate was hung outside a bedroom window of a modest frame house in a leafy residential street. Citizens made holiday. Indians made whoopee. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio made a speech-and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas became formally aware that he was Number...
...long as we've got prohibition, I'd like to give it long enough to work itself out. ... If we keep it 100 years and the other nations stay wet, we'll either own them or they will be working...
...Anyway, I'm against any revision of the thing via emotion. The Eighteenth Amendment was swept in by emotion. Governor Smith wants to get a change by emotion, inspired by his magnetic personality and popular appeal. I'd much rather trust the question to a mind like Hoover's, that will get the facts...
...fight against liquor. . . . Such a change [repeal of the 18th Amendment] would be a calamity, but there's no possibility of it. As for present enforcement conditions, we manage to get along well enough at Detroit, although we are next door to Canada. Personally I'd turn out the army and navy to stop bootlegging...
...were changed, we'd have to shut down our plants. Everything in the United States is keyed up to a new pace which started with Prohibition. The speed at which we run our motor cars, operate our intricate machinery, and generally live would be impossible with liquor. No, there is no chance even of modification...