Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State control and still stay within the Constitution. But it is significant that the court lays stress on the police power being vested in the forty-eight States. It will take action by forty-eight governments to give us Fascism or Communism, and each of these States could repeal the experiment whenever it pleased...
...government is powerless to prohibit child labor directly, as the present child labor law would prohibit it. Mr. Smith's parallel with the sumptuary Eighteenth amendment is an unfortunate one. The fact is that the eighteenth amendment was passed, and only a national revolt at its philosophy forced its repeal. The eighteenth amendment could not have been passed if its exponents had placed their hopes on the taxing power, or the interstate commerce clause. Behind the present child labor law a very simple strategy is visible; the example of the eighteenth amendment indicated that a prohibition legally impossible when disguised...
Going great guns last week was a full-sized trade war between France and Britain. Repeal in the U. S. was largely to blame. Fighting for a larger share of the newly-established liquor trade, France agreed to accept greatly increased quotas of U. S. apples and pears in return for more wine shipped to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 1). Anxious as France is to help her vintners, she is still more firmly bound to the quota system and economic self-sufficiency. Hence some other import quotas had to be decreased, and it was the British that suffered. British...
...plain fact of the matter is that repeal has been pretty much of a flasco; liquor is only slighly cheaper, the speakeasies were just as good as the hotels and restaurants that have replaced them, and in many cases the quality of liquor has deteriorated. All this is due to the fact that no real attempt has been made to regulate effectively the liquor industry. With the lone exception of Pennsylvania, no state has in operation a really workable system of control, which keeps prices down and excludes illegal and fraudulent groups; nor has the Federal government been able...
...decision did not release other thousands now in jail serving Federal Prohibition sentences imposed before Repeal...