Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were agreed on passage of a beer bill and repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mr. Roosevelt could not give his conferees much help on the Domestic Allotment bill before Congress because, he smilingly explained, he had not read that farm relief measure and so did not know what was in it. Budget-balancing supplied most of the meat for the conference...
...Received from the Judiciary Committee a Repeal resolution wherein Congress retained power to "regulate or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises where sold." ¶Adjourned for the Coolidge funeral...
Prohibition. The intricacies of keeping the Repeal pledge have yet to be developed...
...Drys, Consolidated. To them it marked the end of an era during which their power over Congress and the country had been practically supreme. The great dam they had built against the "liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult too loudly. Responsibility was sobering even the most rampant anti-Prohibitors...
Because it was revenue legislation the beer bill was given right-of-way in the House this week. Speaker Garner promised both sides ample time to debate it, ample opportunity to amend it. Its passage by the House was confidently predicted?but not by any such vote (272) as Repeal got the first clay of the session. The predominantly Dry Senate's action remained highly uncertain. And at the end of the legislative lane appeared to loom a veto by President Hoover who. unlike the Ways & Means majority, is known to feel that Beer before Repeal is Nullification...