Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill by South Carolina's Smith to create a Government cotton pool, reduce production; sent it to the House. C, Passed (63-to-23) a resolution by Wisconsin's Elaine to repeal the 18th Amendment; sent it to the House (see above). ¶ Passed the $370,000,000 War Department appropriation bill, after providing $20,000,000 to care for 88,000 boys left vagrant by the Depression, at Army camps; sent it to conference. ¶ Passed (53-to-10) a bill by New York's Wagner increasing the R. F. C. jobless relief fund...
...Senator Sheppard arose, not to praise Prohibition, but in a desperate last-ditch defense of it. Waiting at the Senate door was a Repeal resolution. To keep it off the floor the little Texan cleared his throat and said...
Thus began a pathetic one-man filibuster against Repeal. In slow measured words Senator Sheppard recited the decade's doings at Geneva. Monotonously he read from old documents. Slowly he meandered down long columns of figures. His dronings drove Senators from the chamber, left Vice President Curtis suffering silently and alone on the rostrum. Tourists in the gallery gaped down at the spectacle of one little Dry defying the U. S. electorate...
Author of the Repeal resolution...
...held out until 10 p. m. when, no other Senate Dry having gone to his assistance, he suddenly and unexpectedly put his watch back in his pocket, dropped into his chair. Next day the Senate voted 58-to-23 to take up the Repeal resolution. During the two-day debate that followed Senator Sheppard uttered not another word...