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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That inquisitive journal the Literary Digest, is now conducting a nationwide poll on Prohibition. The vote conducted two years ago on this subject proved little, since in offering three alternatives, repeal, modification, and enforcement, no one received a majority of votes. Though the earlier Prohibition poll was inconclusive, the presidential poll of 1928 proved to be surprisingly accurate. The present questionnaire, offering only two choices, will probably decide with equal exactitude the sentiment of the American voters. Th large number of replies already counted show a decided wet majority in every state. Although the method of choosing voters prevented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIGESTING PROHIBITION | 2/27/1932 | See Source »

...information anent the repeal of an old rule, thanks.-ED. In South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Plank, Poll, Party | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Leopold (Bel-gium), 1921; Grand Officer Order of Polonia Restituta. 1923; Commander of Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy), 1924; Grand Cross Order of the Crown of Roumania, 1927: Order of the White Lion, ist Class (Czechoslovakia), 1027. loudly Dr. Butler trumpets for Peace, the Republican Party and Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Famed is his work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which he reputedly persuaded the old steelmaster to establish. International amity has able spokesmen in Washington, but it is Dr. Butler who most often sells its fundamentals to the People. For his ardent salesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside's Miracle | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...politicians have been so regular in election years, so independent when votes were not being counted. A Wet of Wets he was one of the first notable persons after Prohibition to come out for repeal. Long a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Butler broke with him over his Progressive movement in 1910. Every four years he writes a national platform for the Grand Old Party only to see it tossed aside at the convention. He went as a delegate to his first Republican convention in 1888. Since 1904 he has never missed one. In 1912 as the vice-presidential nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside's Miracle | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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