Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialists, with considerably less harmony, began formulating the issues on which Nominees Thomas & Maurer will campaign. A bitter struggle resulted in what Colyumist Heywood Broun, defeated Socialist candidate for Congress and New York City alderman, wryly called his "first political victory." The convention voted (80-to-71) for repeal of the 18th Amendment and Government sale of liquor. Other plans: U. S. recognition of Soviet Russia, participation in the League of Nations, ten billion dollars worth of Federal unemployment relief and public works, cancellation of War debts, increased inheritance, personal and corporation income taxes, a two-year moratorium on foreclosures...
...fashionable suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, scores and scores of well-dressed ladies, wives of substantial, responsible businessmen, were earnestly parading the streets and highways in their family automobiles, blaring their horns steadily with large blue & white banners proclaiming that the 18th Amendment must be repealed. It was "National Repeal Week," sponsored by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform of which Mrs. Sabin is national chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt campaign chief. After their horn-blowing motorcades, during which they were careful not to smoke cigarets in conservative districts, the suburban ladies returned to make streetcorner speeches patterned after...
...proposal that the two major political parties should adopt a definite prohibition plank in their party platforms at the conventions in Chicago next month. Of that number 626, or about 42 per cent of those in favor of the suggestion, expressed the wish that the party platforms should advocate repeal of the prohibition...
Princeton, N. J. May 25--Results received tonight of college prohibition polls other than those held at Harvard and Princeton are as follows: Dartmouth, 1765 in favor of plank in party platform, 51 against, 37 for continuation of present laws, 806 for repeal, 675 for modification, 298 for referendum; Smith, 989 for plank, 189 against, 55 for continuation, 294 for repeal, 366 for modification, and 298 for referendum; Bryn Mawr, 205 for plank, 11 against, 7 for continuation of present situation, 91 for repeal, 60 for modification, and 47 for referendum; Sarah Lawrence, 155 for plank, 25 against...
...eastern colleges; Princeton, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley. The action was sponsored by the Daily Princetonian. In the balloting at Princeton on Tuesday, the student body was almost unanimously in favor of making prohibition a party issue, by a vote of 1581 to 23. Total repeal was favored...