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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Ottawa, Kansas | 3/13/1930 | See Source »

...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 I feel as do many that the Eighteenth Amendment should be repealed as the root of the whole trouble.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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burns Scores Eighteenth Amendment as Responsible for Lawlessness--Opposes "Experiments" in the Constitution | 3/12/1930 | See Source »

Professor Macneil refused to comment on the Harvard Debating Council's plan for the enforcement of the eighteenth Amendment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sayre Macneil Lauds Crimson's Prohibition Plan Because It Sets College Men Thinking on Worthwhile Subject | 3/11/1930 | See Source »

...have your letter asking my opinion regarding the Harvard Debating Council Plan for the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. With much of it I find myself in accord, but I should be in grave fear lest section 4 lead to gross abuses. A "federal educational" bureau would become simply the organ of a prohibition party, and this clause might lead to the establishment of an endowed newspaper or some other experiment of more than dubious value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/11/1930 | See Source »

...Harvard CRIMSON, in conjunction with the college debating society, has recently entered into a campaign to modify the Eighteenth Amendment. They have solicited the support of college newspapers throughout the country and some interest has been aroused concerning the attitude which the News-Letter intends to take on the matter...

Author: By Johns HOPKINS News-letter, | Title: THE PRESS | 3/11/1930 | See Source »

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