Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeal rounded the two-thirds mark without a break in its stride last week when Washington became the 24th State to approve the 21st Amendment. Voting by legislative districts, the State chose 95 Wet delegates, four Dry ones to its ratification convention in October. The popular vote...
Three years ago small, tight-lipped Senator Morris Sheppard, whose proudest boast is that he helped write the 18th Amendment, boasted proudly: "There's as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." Last week humming bird and Washington Monument were well on their way to Mars when Senator Sheppard's own mammoth Texas became the 23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment...
Senator Sheppard did all in his power to stay the humming bird's flight. He spent nearly a month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want...
...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
...president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled to Repeal, Mr. Fry on learning that Canada Dry would soon be selling beer and whiskey, insisted that N. W. Ayer should drop the account...