Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your editorial February 28th, regarding eighteenth amendment, and reprinted in State University of Iowa, "Dally Iowan" of March 5th, has a lot of meat...
Replying to yours of the 2nd, I do not believe that it would be possible to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment...
...very much more than the present law. My own judgment is that the present law should be enforced and should continue until the saloon idea has become as thoroughly discredited in this country as the slave-block. Meanwhile, the states should pass concurrent legislation as provided for in the Eighteenth Amendment, and then when the American people are thoroughly convinced that laws will be enforced and that our Constitution will be respected and that open deflance of the Constitution is a form of treason, it will then be time to modify the provisions of the Volstead Act and to declare...
...When the Harvard CRIMSON asks "What can college men do about Prohibition?" the obvious answer is "very little." The national aspects of the question are so large as to render ineffectual the small, shrill voice of the colleges. College debates, discussions, and petitions calling for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendmen' while they may be interesting, carry little weight. They indicate, however, that the educated youth of the country has an intelligent interest in the question. Harvard's movement in encourage such interest is therefore commendable...
...Miller '23, Instructor in Romance Languages, to collect and prepare for publication eighteenth century documents relating to America now in Italian State archives, and to obtain material in Turin, Milan and Paris for a study of the Piedmontese poet and politician, Carlo Bossi...