Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Ely's plan to force Massachusetts to be the first to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is unseemly in view of the grave consequences and responsibility involved," declared A. J. Davis, head of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League, in an interview last night...
...Federal budget balanced with the aid of Prohibition repeal. "But I doubt if repeal would produce more than one-quarter of the stimulus to business which its advocates have asserted it would...
...House of Representatives is evidently convinced that there is more than one way to skin a eat. The failure, early in the session, to initiate legislation for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment was a disappointment to many. But last week the House got at Prohibition in a different way. It cut $800,000 from the funds available for its enforcement, and at the same time provided that Prohibition agents should refrain from the practices of wire-tapping, buying evidence, and spying...
...Legion bands were loudly present when Democrat Paul Vories McNutt, 41, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the Legion, took office at Indianapolis. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), grey-haired, autocratic Governor McNutt has an ambitious eye on the White House. A liberal, he favors a state income tax. repeal of the Indiana Dry Law, abolition of the Public Service Commission. Author Meredith Nicholson stagemanaged his outdoor inaugural...
...fourth attempt he won last November. As the first Democratic governor in 16 years, he recommended to the Democratic Legislature a combined sales and gross income tax, old age pensions, direct relief for jobless and a change in the local Dry enforcement law to conform with the November repeal of state constitutional Prohibition. Every year he goes hunting, kills his buck...