Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those welfare workers who have been most active in the movement. The Women's Equal Opportunity League of New York has declared that the sex does not relish nor need "the so-called 'protection' of discriminatory legislation". A committee of working women appeared at Albany and urged the repeal of the laws prohibiting night work, asserting that they can stand the strain as well...
...citizens of the state. Prominent doctors say that it is a great factor in maintaining a high standard of health among the over-crowded city population. The slight disadvantage of two time systems has virtually disappeared now that people have become accustomed to the change. The only reasons for repeal are distinctly local and are far outweighed by the advantages of the extra hour of daylight to the community as a whole...
...recall of "Pussyfoot" Johnson from an active European campaign for prohibition affords the press another opportunity for banter at the expense of the Volstead supporters. While there is no real danger, (or hope, as the case may lie), of any immediate repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the fact that the prohibitionists have ceased their foreign campaign, and are rallying their forces at home, shows that they fear a 'too' liberal interpretation...