Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Step No. 3. When the State conventions assembled they would elect chairmen who would put one question to the floor: To repeal or not to repeal. Each delegate would vote yes or no according to whether he had been chosen to represent Wets or Drys. Each chairman would report the result of the vote to his Legislature, which would forward it through the Governor to the U. S. Secretary of State...
...procedure would be approximately the same if a Republican majority were seated in Congress. But the Republican proposal on which the conventions would have to pass would not be simply Repeal or Retention, but a new amendment superseding the 18th...
Victor in the nominating race (equivalent to election) was Robert Rice Reynolds (no tobacconist), 47-year-old Asheville lawyer who had won the first primary by 15,000 votes against a field of four. Advocating outright repeal, he declared: "This isn't a question of bringing liquor back because it has never left...
...Reynolds campaign was greatly helped when on the eve of the North Carolina run-off the Democratic party in Chicago adopted a Repeal plank. Mr. Reynolds stood squarely on that plank. Senator Morrison stepped off, fell to political death into the arms of the Anti-Saloon League...
North Carolina, "valley of humility between two peaks of conceit," was not the only Southern State where Prohibition was making a strange new political brew. The South Carolina delegation last week startled the Democratic Convention by voting for Repeal. In August, South Carolina will hold a Democratic primary for the Senate nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps...