Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst thing that could happen to this country would be a step backward in our fight against liquor. . . . Such a change [repeal of the 18th Amendment] would be a calamity, but there's no possibility of it. As for present enforcement conditions, we manage to get along well enough at Detroit, although we are next door to Canada. Personally I'd turn out the army and navy to stop bootlegging...
...Governor Smith is a man for whom I have profound admiration. He is undoubtedly the greatest State Governor we have had in half a century, and I admire his honesty on the prohibition question. I also believe, because he said it, that he would lead a movement to repeal the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. Because of the large wet element in the Democratic party, I believe he would have greater difficulty in enforcing the amendment than Hoover would have...
...landed interests) he had opposed Free Trade, opposition to which was exemplified in the famous Corn Laws. But with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm, scintillating wit, and considerable treachery, Disraeli immortally flayed his chief as "a great parliamentary middleman . . . who bamboozles one party and plunders the other," and reviled him for having caught the Whigs bathing...
...Brown Derby was said to have no connection with a body called the National Committee for the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,* with offices at 100 Wall Street. The secretary of this committee, one Robert Athey, last week announced that 150,000 return postcards had been sent to voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help
Last week, final compilation of another Prohibition referendum in North Dakota, showed that some 86,000 voters were still Dry, that some 82,000 voters wanted to repeal the State enforcement law. Repealers were in the majority in two of North Dakota's three Congressional districts...