Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibition was also an important factor in Nominee Hoover's consideration of possible Democratic candidates. His friends told him that, on a Resubmission plank, he could probably beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt running on a Repeal platform. Newton Diehl Baker or Albert Cabell Ritchie as outright Wets would possibly be harder for him to defeat. Alfred Emanuel Smith, pledged to Repeal, would be far stronger than in 1928 because of economic conditions but it was unlikely that he could win out over the Republican nominee. As the President figured it out alone in the White House, a damp...
...land were excited because he had regretfully abandoned the Cause which he and his father & mother had supported with speech, prayer and at least $434,000. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee and Tacoma the news had flashed when he publicly endorsed Nicholas Murray Butler's call for out-&-out repeal of Prohibition (TIME, June...
...Chicago, whither she had journeyed to work & pray against repeal platforms by either political party, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement announced: "He will hardly feel at home in the jubilant company of outlawed brewers and Wet attackers of the Constitution. I've known John since he was a boy and his statement makes me very...
Elated but not motivated by the Rockefeller pronouncement, the leaders of the six militant Wet organizations met in Manhattan's Empire State Building, organized themselves into a United Repeal Council, mightiest Wet body yet to be washed up by the anti-Prohibition groundswell. Chosen chairman of the Council, which claims to represent a membership of 2,500,000 citizens, was Pierre Samuel du Pont. The Council decided to hold a mass meeting in Chicago on the eve of the Republican National Convention, after which it will go about trying to get the 18th Amendment out of the Constitution just...
...World's Alliance of Y. M. C. A. and executive committee member of the Allied Forces for Prohibition, long a friend and beneficiary of the Rockefeller family, was in Scotland when he heard the news. Promptly he. too, plumped for Prohibition reform. While opposed to outright repeal, he favored a non-political national referendum. Another prominent Prohibitionist, Stanley High, who quit managing editing the Christian Herald to found a Dry daily in Manhattan (not yet founded) believed that it was time "for the Drys to re-examine their case." Month before he had come out for referendum...