Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the convention would do about Prohibition even the President did not know. Secretary Richey reported that Chicago was filled with wild talk about a repeal declaration. The Indiana State convention startlingly declared for resubmission of the 18th Amendment. As a candidate for re-election Mr. Hoover had told pre-convention callers that he was ready to run on a platform declaring for resubmission of the question to the people but that he was opposed to Repeal. Senators had submitted sample planks for Resubmission but on none had Mr. Hoover placed his finger and said: "I want this and nothing...
...President's position offered his party a serious difficulty. Resubmission, at best, is a weasel unless accompanied by a declaration in favor of a specific outcome. Herbert Hoover is against Repeal, hence favors retaining the 18th Amendment and is therefore rated Dry. What would happen, it was asked last week, if he "resubmitted" the issue to the people and they voted for Repeal...
Wickershambles. Once in the White House President Hoover shuffled off the whole liquor question to the Wickersham Commission where it was diffused and submerged with other matters. When a 6-to-5 majority of the Commission reported Wet, he set aside their findings, declared against repeal of the 18th Amendment and appeared to the country Dryer than ever. For once the whisperings of his office staff that his mind was still "open" failed to convince. Rather it became understood that the President was impressed with some advice from Calvin Coolidge: that Herbert Hoover had back of him only one remaining...
...East's dissatisfaction with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote Nicholas Murray Butler that the "evils" resulting from Prohibition led him now to favor repeal. Practical politicians...
Another problem, which is probably less serious, although it has received more attention from the press, is that of the Prohibition plank. The administration is outspoken in its opposition to any form of direct repeal and in its acceptance of the "resubmission" proposal announced by Republican leaders some time ago. As equivocal as anyone could require, such a plank would be most helpful to pre-election party orators, and to all appearances there can be little question but that it will be included. But in the past week, a wave of pro-repeal sentiment has swept the country, staunchly supported...