Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nothing need be added to that [the Repeal plank], except that if the present Congress takes no action, I shall urge the new Congress to carry out these provisions...
...Profit During the afternoon Nominee Thomas climbed up on a platform. He spoke easily, rapidly, with few gestures and no political blood & thunder. His speech not only inaugurated his campaign but gave his party its 1932 slogan: ''Repeal Unemployment." Avoiding abstract theory he hammered home the necessity for relief, not as the two old parties proposed but by means of the Socialist formula of "production for public use rather than for private profit. " Excerpts...
...hope? No hope, unless we declare war on poverty with the energy with which we warred on Germany. No hope, unless we seek to repeal unemployment with a hundred times the fervor and intelligence men seek to repeal the discredited 18th Amendment...
...Prohibition was a hot question before the Ohio State Convention. After a lively floor fight during which a Repeal plank was rejected 708-to-130, the delegates endorsed the party's Chicago declaration. When David Sinton Ingalls, young nominee for Governor, declared for "repeal of all present Prohibition laws," Wets on the floor and in the galleries thundered: WE WANT BEER...
...Last week Mark Sullivan, seasoned convention commentator, reported that most Southern Democrats had a "morning after" feeling about their party's Repeal plank. Wrote he: "Their feeling about what they did about Prohibition is that of a man who finds himself wedded to a comparative stranger when all he meant was to go maying with the lady. The lady's marriage certificate is indisputable ... the equally certain fact is that not more than 500 of the [1,154] delegates meant to go that...