Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeal. Fortnight ago Speaker Garner announced that he would put to an immediate House vote a resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment, with ratification by State conventions. As both parties had declared Wet, he favored quick disposal of the question. About the Capitol for a week there was much scurrying and nose-counting. Would the resolution muster the necessary two-thirds vote? Majority Leader Rainey thought so. Others were less certain. Die-hard Drys fumed at the State convention method of ratification, succeeded in inducing the Judiciary Committee to reject (13-to-6) the Garner resolution...
Except to the confirmed beer-lover, however, this measure is little more than palliative. As far as it goes it is practical since it will provide supposedly three hundred million dollars revenue, and is also expected to prevent racketeering brewers by supervising manufacture. Although it will scarcely satisfy the repeal sentiment throughout the country, it is a step in the right direction; and its practical application will do much to guide Congress in the long process of working out a repeal measure that will not turn out to be another "experiment...
...would not. He has repeatedly held that to authorize that which the 18th Amendment prohibits is nullification. With him the result would hinge on the moral question of whether beer is intoxicating in fact. Another Hoover objection to beer is his fear that its production prior to controlled repeal of the 18th Amendment would bring back the saloon...
...however, that enough Dry members were "converted" during the campaign to produce 237 votes, a majority of 19. after Dec. 5. Never more than 26 sitting Senators have voted Wet. But here again sufficient conversions are claimed to produce the 49 majority. Senate Drys who have lately swung to Repeal if not to beer include Arkansas' Robinson, Mississippi's Harrison, Ohio's Fess, Georgia's George, Arizona's Ashurst, Washington's Dill, Michigan's Vandenberg, Tennessee's McKellar. Republican Floor Leader Watson last week declared he was for 2.75% beer because "it doesn't mean anything?it's only slop...
...offers the greatest conflict of public and private opinion. As deep-rooted as ever is dread of the saloon. Crusader Fred Clark holds firmly to his organization's purpose of "taking profit out of liquor distribution." Such an able Wet as Representative-elect Wadsworth of New York fears that Repeal, the ultimate goal, might be retarded by a reckless flood of beer...