Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition issue was forced to a vote by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham. He proposed a resolution whereby the Senate would "welcome" State referenda on repeal or modification of the Volstead Act. The Drys flayed the proposal as "passing the buck" to the States, criticized referenda in general as a "cowardly" approach to the issue. Some Wets, favoring a straight-cut test on repeal, likewise deplored the resolution's "meaninglessness...
Prohibition. Governor Roosevelt is a Wet who has declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet, with his eye on the White House, he would like to soft-pedal Prohibition as an issue and retreat into the mists of referenda. Widespread is the belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition?one for an honestly militant stand...
...Finance Committee, were three leading Democrats left in Washington last fortnight. A few days before the year's end the Press obtained from them some sketchy hints which were immediately reported as the Democratic Tax Plan. Chief features: Make the "entrenched rich" bear the load; hoist the surtaxes; repeal the section on capital gains & losses (under which many a citizen was hoping, with mostly losses to report, to cut his 1931 tax to practically nil). Quickly the Treasury (Undersecretary Mills speaking) Hayed the Democrats for planning to "soak the rich." With equal promptitude, stocky, ruddy little Speaker Garner...
...Helsinki, the capital, women cast red ballots, surprised everyone by plumping for State Liquor Control. In all, 82% of the capital's vote was for repeal of Prohibition, and of this landslide of ballots more than 55% were...
...Repeal...