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Replying to yours of the 2nd, I do not believe that it would be possible to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment...
...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the repeal of the Volstead Act is, quite possible," said Peters, "but I doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment can ever be repealed.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...
...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...
...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 All present federal legislation for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment shall be repealed; Congress shall make unlawful the operation of all saloons and ale-houses; federal aid shall be provided for all states enacting legislation to enforce the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...