Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Philippine independence. Appropriations. The Glass banking bill. Farm relief. Taxation, if any, from the House. Unemployment relief. Economy. Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Beer. World Court...
...Holyoke College, delegate to last year's stalled Disarmament Conference, spoke on "The Church and World Peace." The Federal Council blenched a bit when its old bogey, Birth Control, bobbed up in a committee report, revised during the past four years, on Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian Rev. Dr. David de Forest Burrell moved to strike out both passages. In their defense, Presbyterian Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, said...
Followed 40 minutes of rapid-fire debate, no man talking more than a minute or two. Some Republicans objected to the Speaker's "steamroller methods." Finally the momentous roll-call began, droning through 435 names. His face flushed with disappointment, Speaker Garner huskily announced the result: 272 for Repeal; 144 against. The resolution had failed by six votes to muster a two-thirds majority, was lost. The Drys cheered feebly, the House adjourned...
Leader Rainey: Mr. Speaker, I move that the House suspend the rules for the present consideration of House Joint Resolution 408 to repeal the 18th Amendment...
...Repeal: 168 Democrats, 103 Republicans, 1 Farmer-Laborite. Against Repeal: 43 Democrats; 101 Republicans. Sixty-two lame ducks voted Dry. Since the last session Wets had run their strength up from 187 to 272. Speaker Garner indicated that the House would not get another chance to vote on Repeal this session...