Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibitionists, in the current controversy over the Eighteenth Amendment, have exhibited a marked tendency towards fortifying their position with sweeping generalities. Eminent figures in public life, capitalizing prestige, have advanced the cause of the Volstead Act by statements to the effect that Prohibition has been an unconditional success, basing their declarations on moral principles rather than any close study of the situation...
...announced while the Literary Digest prohibition poll is in progress. In a general way it supports the tendency of that poll as it has developed so far. The two together justify at least a tentative conclusion that the majority of the people of the United States believe the Eighteenth amendment as it stands was a mistake. Detroit Free Press
...therefore feel that the results of the poll show only the sentiments of a class not well acquainted with earlier conditions, and do not warn of any nation-wide landslide toward repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, which will never come...
...distinctly wet tone of the National Collegiate Prohibition Poll establishes the first actual evidence of undergraduate sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment. While the Poll is in no sense complete, it definitely replaces popular legend with statistics, at the same time presenting one entirely new aspect to the whole discussion of legal restrictions to drinking...
...serious foundation to the assertion that present day liquor legislation is inducing a very deep and fundamental disregard for constitutional authority. The extent to which this spirit seems to have permeated the youth of the country goes a long way towards outbalancing any much vaunted "economic" benefits of the Eighteenth Amendment...