Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflation. We've got to do more than we are doing. Personally I would try out the issue of Treasury notes. If commodity prices don't rise, I don't know when we are going to get out of this depression and the next Congress will repeal the President's discretionary-powers and make monetary inflation compulsory. If something isn't done quickly, you can kiss the baby good-by-I mean, the baby of agricultural prosperity. The success of the President's program may be in doubt...
...last week only seven States stood between the 18th Amendment and Repeal. With women Dry workers fruitlessly chanting "Vote the white ribbon ticket" from church steps and outside polling places, Maryland became the 27th consecutive State to approve the 21st Amendment. Minnesota followed suit, though Granite Falls remained 271-to-18 loyal to its Andrew John Volstead. As the 29th Repeal State, Colorado completed the week's balloting...
Between this week and Nov. 7, ten more States will definitely vote. So certain did Repeal appear that Montana's Canadian-born Governor Frank Henry Cooney decided voting would be a waste of time and money. Said he: "Montana won't need to vote. Repeal will be in the basket by Nov. 7 and we can save our $100,000 and use it to feed our needy people...
Footnote to Prohibition history: Boston's Arthur Race, addressing the American Hotel Association last week at Del Monte, Calif., said, "Last September President Hoover called me to Washington and told me he favored repeal of the 18th Amendment as soon as possible. He told me of the magnitude of the bootlegging and speakeasy industries. He said they should be eliminated as soon as possible. But still he would not tell the people of the U. S. that and he asked me not to make our conversation public...
...Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call him out to lead the retail branch of racketeering. "In some countries the orgies of an NRA put through PDQ might end in TNT. "President Roosevelt better call a special session to repeal this...