Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questions are in substance. (1) Are you in favor of enforcement of the present prohibition law? (2) Do you favor modification of the Volstead Act? (3) Do you favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment? The results of this straw vote must be taken seriously, for the results from previous Literary Digest ballots prior to presidential elections have been amazingly accurate...
...newly-acquired volumes are chiefly eighteenth and nineteenth century treatises on phases of business and economics, such as "The Art of Tanning", or "The Art of Dyeing", and each has been rebound in French in the form of its first edition. In some cases the Bibliotheque Nationale had as many as six duplicates of the desired works, some of which were taken by French libraries on hearing of the Business School's intended purchase...
...premise. In the first place, what Representative Williamson is pleased to term the "nullification doctrine" of the present day bears slight similarity to the nullification doctrine which precipitated the Civil War. The former rests simply on the assumed right of Congress to refuse to enact subsidiary legislation to the Eighteenth Amendment since it is not directly obligated to do so. The latter assumes the right of an individual state to annul legislation distasteful...
...representative of the student attitude. Any discussion of Prohibition, and such a subject must necessarily be included in an analysis of modern American government and economics, will naturally focus attention on a large class of citizens, who have heretofore been quite reticent on the theory and practice of the Eighteenth Amendment. Although, in the eyes of some persons, students may be better qualified to debate on education and athletics, their contribution to the mass of material on government and industry will prove at least novel. At any rate, the ancient adage that the younger generation should confine its personality...
...yesterday's prohibition news is in that summary by any means, but enough to prove that prohibition, though settled at law by the peoples' representatives, is still a mooted point in the minds of the people themselves, in the face of such confusion as surrounds the Eighteenth Amendment, it is not to be wondered if the reaction of undergraduates towards the whole business is one of thorough disgust...