Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader, Major Curran was warmly praised for having carried the Repeal fight successfully through the two Chicago conventions. Mr. Shouse's job henceforth is to elect enough Wets to the 73rd Congress to secure passage of a Repeal resolution and to press its ratification by the States. His political skill and personal contacts amply qualify him. With political if not legislative victory in sight, Mr. Shouse began looking forward temperately to "what is to be done after Repeal is accomplished...
...possible reason for these omissions appeared when, as a native Kansan, Vice President Curtis declared himself Dry. Said he: "I am a strong believer in the rule of the majority but I am opposed to the return of the saloon and the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Wet Republican editors tush-tushed the vice-presidential nominee for failing to stand by President Hoover's State option formula. Gleefully exclaimed Democratic Chairman Farley: "It looks as if the Republican ticket had a half-dry head and a dried-out tail...
...Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League declared against both Presidential candidates, pledged themselves to fight a change "every step of the way." More moderate Drys, however, began swinging in behind the Hoover candidacy on the ground that the President was against the saloon and "naked Repeal" as proposed by the Democrats. Dr. Daniel A. Poling, as head of the Allied Forces for Prohibition put his Dry organization behind the Republican ticket because "in contrast to Governor Roosevelt his [Hoover's] election will safeguard the gains made under Prohibition...
Kansas Republicans picked Banker Ben Sandford Paulen, onetime Governor, to make the Senate race. Renominated by the Democrats was Senator George McGill who handily defeated a lone Wet opponent. The only Wet to make any snowing in dust-dry Kansas was Edward White Patterson, a Democratic lawyer pledged to Repeal who squeaked through to a House nomination in the heavily Republican 3rd Congressional district. Because Reapportionment cost Kansas one House seat, Republican Representatives Strong and Lambertson had to fight it out for the ist District's nomination. Mr. Strong, ardent Hooverite, was defeated...
...Republican Senatorial nomination went easily to Henry W. Kiel, onetime bricklayer, who served twelve years as Mayor of St. Louis. As both Nominees Kiel and Clark are wringing Wet, Missouri's new Senator is sure to be for repeal of the 18th Amendment...