Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Submission to the states of a resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment...
...days later the Senate resolution emerged on the House floor. Forty minutes of machine-gun debate followed. The vote sent Repeal to the States for ratification...
Chief motive power behind Repeal in the Senate was no longtime Wet but a longtime Dry from Arkansas-Joseph Taylor Robinson. In 1928 Senator Robinson ran for Vice President as a Dry beside Wet Al Smith. In 1931 he was still doggedly opposed to his party's Wet turn. At a Washington meeting he thundered Bryanesquely: "You cannot write on the banner of the Democratic party the skull & crossbones of an outlaw trade." But after last year's Chicago convention, Senator Robinson, loyal Democrat, swallowed his personal opinions...
...When the Repeal resolution came from the committee it contained two provisions objectionable to most Wets: 1) ratification of the amendment by State Legislatures; 2) authority for Congress to "regulate or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises where sold." It was Senator Robinson who offered amendments to bring the resolution back into line with the Democratic platform which promised ratification by majority vote of State conventions in 36 States, and complete withdrawal of Federal control of liquor within the States...
Last December, on the first day of the session, Speaker Garner gave the House a chance to vote Repeal. The House defeated it by six votes. Following the Senate's action, the Speaker called a Democratic caucus at which members were bound to support Repeal as a party principle...