Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to listen to his renomination in Chicago. By long distance telephone he had bossed the Republican Convention as completely as if he had stood up on the Stadium rostrum and shouted his orders directly at the delegates. His patronage power had defeated a Prohibition plank for Repeal, forced the adoption of one for Revision (see p. 12). At his dictation every event moved according to schedule, the renomination was hardly more than a perfunctory anticlimax...
...Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas Murray Butler and tall, white- maned Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut had promised to pit their minority Repeal plank against the Administration's Revision proposal, over which the Resolutions Committee had been toiling for 24 hours...
Still another Wet convert of the week was Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, who declared: "My own views have been reversed. The road toward greater temperance is through repeal. . . . The experiment has resulted in failure...
Also on the heels of the Rockefeller switch, William Gibbs McAdoo, longtime temperance champion, came out with a defensive proposal. The legal machinery for resubmission or repeal would grind too slowly to be effective, thought he. Although legalists had argued that the Constitution does not provide for popular balloting on general questions. Lawyer McAdoo observed that the Congress was empowered "to provide for the general welfare of the United States." He proposed that the next President call a special session of Congress to empower him to proclaim "a national advisory referendum." Well aware that this liberal Prohibitionist policy...
...Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the Atlantic Coast district from Jacksonville to Key West had declared for a referendum before she started to campaign for Democratic renomination. That, however, did not save her from being defeated by Mark Wilcox, West Palm Beach attorney, who strenuously advocated the quickest possible repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mrs. Owen announced she would resign her House seat after the November election, instead of serving out her term to March 4, because she did not believe in "lame ducks" continuing to hold office...