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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...
...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...