Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for president. It is doubtful that prohibition voting at this late day will be significant in any other way than that the legal minds which framed the four questions are peculiarly weak in their knowledge of the constitutional obstacles in the way of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...they returned from Europe few weeks ago to discover that their son Peter, 20, had erected a short-wave broadcasting station, KWKY, on their estate at Chester, N. Y. Over it Capitalist Goelet broadcast his views on the Depression, Unemployment, conditions abroad; Mrs. Goelet hers on "Why We Should Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment." Station KWKY hummed merrily until the Federal Radio Commission informed Capitalist Goelet that the unlicensed station was illegal, that it must be dismantled...
...Wesley Memorial Church applauded vigorously as Bishop Cannon, still suffering from arthritis ("aggravated," said he, "by the thrusts of Wet interests seeking to crush me") crutched his way down the 'aisle to take a seat on the platform. Night before, speaking in Atlanta Auditorium on "Prohibition Repeal Unthinkable-Shall the Officials Enforce the Law?," he had told his hearers, Heflin-wise: "I am almost sure to be indicted, because of the Roman Catholic district attorney at Washington...
...producing States doing the same. Texas then upsets the plans by passing a 30% acreage law, making the No Cotton Laws of no avail since there can be no 75% prohibition of cotton without Texas. Now nothing remains for the States with No Cotton Laws but to repeal and pass other laws, necessitating other special sessions of legislatures if anything is to be done to help cotton this year. . . . Governor Gardner knew that cotton prohibition in the South would play into the hands of the Egypt, Russia et al; he knew the economic loss the South would suffer from...
...patently Wet: "Whereas the 18th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States has created a condition endangering the respect for law and the security of American institutions, therefore be it "Resolved, That the American Legion in this 13th annual convention assembled favors the submission by Congress of the repeal or modification of the present Prohibition laws to the several States with a request that each State submit this question to the voters thereof...