Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slightly more than half of the State's 1,497,000 registered Republicans retired sepulchral Senator Samuel Shortridge in favor of 35-year-old Tallant Tubbs. Nominee Tubbs, rich San Francisco rope-maker and State Senator, conducted a 20,000-mile campaign by autogyro. He ardently preached Repeal. His friend is Senator Hiram Johnson, longtime enemy of Herbert Hoover. Nominee Tubbs attributed his victory to his interest in sandlot baseball and "the personal touch." Disinterested observers thought Senator Shortridge, ardent Hooverite, lost because he tried to weasel on Prohibition...
...White House elevator broke down. Into the White House grounds drove a repair truck. On the front of it was a plate: "Repeal the 18th Amendment." On the rear a sign read: "Vote for Roosevelt...
...sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared for Repeal, he went silent on Prohibition, left primary voters to guess what he favored...
Faithless McAdoo? Justus Wardell, Mr. McAdoo's most serious primary opponent, is a San Francisco business man who worked hard and well for the Brown Derby in 1928 but switched to his old friend Governor Roosevelt this year. Candidate Wardell, a wringing Wet, promises to offer a Repeal resolution immediately on reaching the Senate. Last week at a Wardell campaign luncheon in San Francisco, a speaker loudly accused Mr. McAdoo of "faithlessness to his party," adding: "He didn't support the nominee in 1928 and he ran away to Europe in 1924. He did nothing to stop the campaign...
...President and his platform by declaring against the World Court. This flipflop won him favor with the Hearst Press, but cost him the friendly feeling of many a regular party leader. On Prohibition the Senator wooed the Wets with talk of Resubmission, then the Drys with a declaration against Repeal. Most likely beneficiary of these Shortridgean straddles is Mr. Tubbs who stands to gain "regular" votes on the World Court, Wet votes on his outright Repeal plank. Energetic Candidate Tubbs has, during his canvass, startled many a back-countryman by dropping down realistically in remote corners of the State...