Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stage Manager. To marshal Dry witnesses and their testimony was the work of Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, chairman of the Association of Organizations in Support of the Eighteenth Amendment, Washington agent (lobbyist) for the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Able, smiling, determined, she stage-managed the Dry testimony from the wings of the committee room, sent her witnesses out to tell their stories, did not take the stage herself...
...wine, a majority vote of two hundred for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment would seem to make all comment superfluous...
Hanover, N.H., March 14--In the annual balloting held at Dartmouth today the senior class of 459 showed its disapproval of the Eighteenth Amendment, only 50 voting in a tolerant manner toward it. According to the ballot Yale is the Green's keenest rival and favorite college after Dartmouth, with Harvard placing second...
...Harvard Debating Council plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment made no impression in this region. Any one who has known the deviltries of the liquor traffic for two generations knows that the people engaged in that sort of thing were always law-breakers and seldom, if ever, obeyed any law operating restrictively on them...
...mind there is a picture of America, anxious to maintain abroad its reputation for high moral tone, at the same time sneaking around the corner to have a cocktall. I feel as do many that the Eighteenth Amendment should be repealed as the root of the whole trouble. It is called a 'noble experiment', but a constitution should contain broad statements of general policy, not experiments...