Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday Andrew J. Peters '95, former mayor of Boston, termed the CRIMSON and Debating Council proposals on prohibition "an intelligent plan." "I believe the repeal of the Volstead Act is, quite possible," said Peters, "but I doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment can ever be repealed. State control of the saloon, not Federal as advocated in your plan, is to be preferred. I don't believe the difficulties caused by having a wet state adjoining a dry state will be very great...
...sensible project for debate. As a plan to be urged upon Congress it is premature, because all plans to add a dash of common sense to the Prohibition mass of emotional pottage are premature. A Congressional majority theoretically (and in part hypocritically) in favor of strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and existing legislation under it we will have with us until public opinion shifts far more pronouncedly than it has as yet. And I see no probable cause of such a shift until the fallacy, tyranny, and essential unconstitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment are made generally evident...
...wets," and stating with commendable simplicity that "the majority of students, at least in the East, have been breaking the (prohibition) law," The Harvard Crimson has enlisted the aid of the Harvard Debating Council in a crusade to rid the country of the existing enforcement laws for the Eighteenth Amendment. The debators have formulated their own "plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment," and the journalists are laboring mightily to crystallize undergraduate opinion behind a definite plan of prohibition reform...
...Debating Council plan, specifically, is this. All present federal legislation for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment shall be repealed; Congress shall make unlawful the operation of all saloons and ale-houses; federal aid shall be provided for all states enacting legislation to enforce the eighteenth amendment; there shall be federal education to foster and encourage temperance and abstinence; a federal tax shall be placed on some beverages to provide funds to effect items three and four. The Crimson knows that it cannot get a million undergraduates to endorse this plan; but it wants above all else to unite...
From no less an authority than Dr. Clarence True Wilson, executive secretary of the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition, and public morals comes the revealing statement that prohibition is not designed to prevent drinking. Defending his unique interpretation of the eighteenth amendment Dr. Wilson says. "The prohibition laws were enacted to regulate public matters like the licensed sale of intoxicants. Prohibition was not designed to prevent you or me from drinking. That is a matter for our personal tastes...