Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeal of the 18th Amendment may well cause a special session of the new Congress next spring. Though the party is pledged to Repeal, it will take every ounce of the new President's leadership to get_ such a resolution through the slow-shifting Senate. Meanwhile beer as a source of revenue looked like a certainty if not in the 72nd "lame duck" session then in the 73rd's first...
John Jacob Raskob proposed ways to bring back prosperity: i) Repeal the 18th Amendment: 2) tax beer; 3) apply a 1½% general Sales Tax; 4) balance the Budget. Through Indiana Josephus Daniels cheered for his onetime subordinate in the Navy Department, at Frankfort, Elkhart, Wabash. Muncie. Philadelphians were begged by Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley to contrast the records of Hoover and Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George...
...campaigning in the State, had made a warm personal appeal for Senator Watson's reelection. Watson entered the Senate in 1917, succeeded Charles Curtis as G. 0. P. leader in 1929. Long a Dry, he ran as a Resubmissionist. Senator-elect Van Nuys, a longtime Democratic worker, favors Repeal and beer. There was a real partisan revenge in the defeat of New Hampshire's Senator since 1919, George Higgins Moses, whose tart tongue has made many a Democrat wince.* Victor over him was Democrat Fred H. Brown, onetime Governor, new Public Service Commissioner. The Brown attack: "Moses...
...local interests. The personal charm and sympathy of his candidate, the confident progression of his campaign, contrasted favorably with the cold mechanical personality, the franctic last minute efforts of Mr. Hoover. More-over, to a nation oppressed with taxes and disgusted with the failure of the Eighteenth Amendment "Immediate Repeal" had far more meaning than the verbiage surrounding "Resubmission...
...white-haired man coming from his train, they rushed forward and engulfed him with their enthusiasm. It was Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for President, back from a five-week transcontinental campaign tour. Nominee Thomas had traveled 10,000 miles through 38 States, made 150 speeches. His campaign slogan: "Repeal Unemployment." His remedy: a $10,000,000,000 bond issue for direct Federal relief. Typical Thomas speech...