Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high heaven which is free of tax at this time, and sells at reasonable prices, a commodity that took twelve years of scientific effort and experiment in studying the fine points of production. Gentlemen, 1 refer to CORN LIQUOR. And now, as a crowning infamy, our politicians want to repeal the 18th amendment and then place an enormous and confiscatory tax on liquor, thus bringing about our complete enslavement. "The time for action is here when our government attempts to step in and forbid the manufacture and sale, unless we pay a tax, of the last and only joy-giving...
Dissatisfied with this declaration, Senator Bingham produced for the extreme Wets a minority report calling for immediate repeal, with ratification also by State conventions and pledging the party's "best efforts" to "promote temperance, abolish the saloon, whether open or concealed, and bring the liquor traffic under complete public supervision and control...
...favor a submission limited to the issue of retention or repeal. . . . The progress that has been thus far made must be preserved while the evils must be eliminated...
After a two-hour debate the convention rejected the Repeal plank by a vote of 681 to 472. Then it adopted the majority report, thus nailing down in the G. 0. Platform for the first time a declaration for a Change. On the roll call seven States voted solidly for Repeal; ten more showed a majority against the Administration plank. The populous Republican states of New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois. New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan and Indiana all threw their weight against the White House. The fact that President Hoover was able to carry his plank...
...interests himself in program arrangement, devised the call letters KWKY because they appealed to him, had an accomplished girl friend do the actual building. Federal authorities were unaware of the station's existence until newspapers reported broadcasts of speeches by Capitalist Goelet on unemployment, Mrs. Goelet on Prohibition Repeal (TIME, Nov. 2). If final approval is granted, Peter will resume broadcasting on Saturdays & Sundays?only station in the U. S. with such a schedule...