Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note with great pleasure in today's New York papers that your publication has joined the ranks of the Protestants against the Eighteenth Amendment...
This morning I received a brief note from an assistant in the University to the effect that the Harvard Debating Council Plan for the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment is too simple. Possibly other members of the University are of the same opinion. I think that impression arises from too casual an examination of the plan. The effects of the Harvard Debating Council Plan are numerous and far-reaching. I am giving below some of the less obvious effects ofeach item...
Item 1. It does not repeal the Eighteenth Amendment (that requires a two-thirds majority in the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, as well as a two-thirds majority in Congress...
Provides a means of creating and increasing public sentiment necessary to the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment...
Item 5. Places the burden of federal enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment upon people who drink beverages which are not necessaries, but are luxuries. If alcoholic liquor in itself is an evil, it makes the traffic pay for its own eradication...