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After a round million words of debate, the Senate has finally come to the point: it has repealed the arms embargo. Everyone, repealist and anti-repealist alike, must be glad that a final decision has been reached, for it has been obvious from the start that the Administration had the votes. Further debate could only serve to keep the pot boiling, and the minds of the people in confusion. It was an issue that must have disturbed those who gave it only casual attention. On first sight, both sides seemed to be right, and only those who gave the matter...
Calling the oath law "nuisance legislation," Rep, Ralph Clampit rallied the repealist forces on the floor and cried: "The real trouble with the law is that the freedom of teachers has been shackled...
...assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., director of 23 corporations, treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, longtime president of the Boys' Club of New York, husband of smart, vivacious Repealist Pauline Morton Sabin; of cerebral hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated him for his Liberty...
...other hand, rampant Repealist Nicholas Murray Butler edged noticeably closer to the Hoover candidacy when he declared: "President Hoover's declaration fortunately goes far beyond the party platform. . . . The quick end of the disastrous folly of attempting nationwide Prohibition is in sight...
...Regardless of party platforms, the fight to elect Wet members . . . will continue. . . . We have just begun to fight." Sage, he did not envisage Repeal as possible before the 73d Congress, but declared "constructive Wet activity'' might achieve much in the 72nd Congress, "when we will have at least 140 repealist votes to say nothing of the men . . . who are now wavering. . . . We can safely tell our people that light wines & beer are not far in the offing . . . especially if Mr. Hoover's commission indicates that the present form of Prohibition is unsuccessful.'' To his support came Republican Congressman James Montgomery...
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