Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illinois, a measure to repeal the state prohibition enforcement laws...
...notorious Lusk Anti-Sedition and Education Laws were repealed by the New York State Senate by a vote of 26 to 22. They now go to the Assembly where enough votes are said to have been pledged to ratify the Senate's action. Governor Smith who vetoed the original Lusk bills during his last term in office, is certain to sign the bills embodying their repeal...
...Ernest Bamberger, Republican Senatorial candidate in 1922, and three of his friends were arrested for smoking in a Salt Lake City cafe. Other arrests were also made. Utah has a law prohibiting smoking in public and the sale of cigarettes. The Freeman's League is agitating for the repeal of the law. The Mormon Church is in favor of the anti-tobacco legislation...
...costs than ships of other nations, since certain provisions concerning wages, quarters, and other conditions affecting the crew, designed to protect the rights of seamen, result in higher labor costs. A few of these regulations impose unnecessary restrictions; but on the whole our shipping laws are just, and their repeal would be unwise. Little or no reduction in labor charges may therefore be expected...
...amendment, or is it merely an unavoidable halting point in the adjustment of the law to the situation? Does the illicit sale and wide-spread use of spirits prove that national prohibition is something which the people will not have, and that it will be necessary to repeal the amendment? There are many who think so, but in view of the way in which prohibition swept the country, with an almost unanimous ratification by the States, it should be evident that it is vain to talk about repeal at least at the present time. Forty-five of the forty-eight...