Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powell, Langdell Professor of Law, has been appointed by Governor Ely to serve on a commission of seven which will recommend suitable legislation for Massachusetts in the event of repeal or modification of the Federal Prohibition laws. The group has been given carte blanche by Governor Ely to carry on its work as it sees...
President-elect Roosevelt's three major pledges were: 1) Repeal; 2) 25% Economy; 3) "Happy Days Shall Come Again." Declared Pundit Kent: "That's all he has promised. Just those three little things. Practically nothing else. If he redeems one of them he will have accomplished a lot. If he redeems two of them, it will be perfectly grand. If he redeems all three of them he should be President for life...
Michigan voted Yes on a proposal to repeal the State's enforcement act. Score...
Wyoming and Connecticut petitioned Congress to repeal the 18th Amendment. Scores...
...Cochran ('29), James Carey ('29), Latimer S. Steward ('29) and Dr. O. Currier McEwen, assistant dean of New York University's Medical College. At the reception and dance at Manhattan's socialite Colony Club, guests who remembered John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s preElection switch in favor of Volstead Act repeal investigated the punch, found it strictly nonalcoholic. Afterwards Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller III left for a month's honeymoon in Bermuda.* secretly boarded the S. S. American Legion, on which was a party of newshawks on vacation. Reception guests: Henry Ford. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Harold Fowler...