Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questions will be asked on the ballots. The first question is "Do you favor a definite prohibition plank in the platforms of the two major parties?" The second is "Should the plank be for: continuation, modification, repeal, or nation-wide referendum of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...total number of votes cast, 1581 Princeton students favored a definite stand on the issue in the party platforms. Only 23 opposed this proposition. A vote of 785 was cast in favor of the suggestion that these platforms should advocate total repeal. The proposal for the submission of the Eighteenth Amendment to a nation-wide referendum received 395 votes, while 318 favored modification of the existing laws. Eighty-three favored a plank advocating continuation...
...poll conducted by the Daily Princetonian here today, Princeton students voted almost unanimously for the inclusion of a definite prohibition plank in the platforms of the two major political parties. On the question of what this plank should be, about 50 per cent expressed themselves in favor of total repeal of the prohibition legislation...
...small but outstanding group of some of America's rich men are now seeking, by the expenditure of vast sums of money, to secure the repeal of the 18th Amendment. This would evidently shift the burden of taxation from their own shoulders to the backs of the poor...
Last week newshawks flocked about the Small home in Kankakee. Len Small had won his nomination. Though he got only 36% of the G. O. P. primary vote, he managed to nose out four other candidates. As a Wet, he handily defeated a weasler, one Omer N. Custer, whom repeal-vetoing Governor Louis Emmerson had selected as his successor. Nominee Small declaimed: "I accept the responsibility of leading the people in their battle against the forces of wealth, greed and privilege back to prosperity...