Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase in the hated "business turnover tax" from 1.3% to 2%. Said M. Péret: "This is the only imposable tax which will meet the situation." None the less it was recalled that all the political parties in the Chamber pledged themselves to repeal this tax at the last election and have demonstrated time and again that they dare not raise it for fear of their constituents...
...This is the largest straw vote on prohibition ever taken. In 1922 the Literary Digest poll brought out 905,000 votes, of of which 550,000 were for modification or repeal of prohibition...
...largest, conducted by 375 members of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, (and by the New York World) polled some 1,700,000 votes. The voter was given three choices, prohibition as it is, light wines and beers, or repeal of prohibition. Forty-seven states (all except North Dakota) engaged in the poll. In only two states, Kansas and South Carolina, was there a majority for prohibition. Only six others gave pluralities to prohibition. And the total vote was about five to one against prohibition...
...vote was light in the South, the United Press came to nearly 3,000,000 votes,* of which the proportion was more than five to one for modification or repeal...
Prohibition's best friend is Kansas. In the newspaper poll of the nation just now compiled sentiment everywhere ran overwhelmingly in favor of modification or repeal except in a few southern states and in Kansas. Kansas was dry--incomparably drier than any other state in the Union. The natural query is, what manner of commonwealth is this that, alone among its fellows outside the stolid South, still stands so stubbornly beside its Volsteadian guns...