Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eliminates the possibility of any regulation of the liquor traffic. Constitutional amendment, as Walter Lippmann points out, under pressure exerted by the wet states must be the eventual answer to the dilemma. When the wet party has recognized that their ultimate goal must be liquor control rather than total repeal, then they will be joined by the less orthodox drys and sufficient organized political pressure can be brought to bear to force the administration into positive action...
...queried, 157 are politically Dry, 43 Wet. If free to vote as they believed, 61 would stay Dry, 70 would favor modification of the Volstead Act, 69 would support repeal of the 18th Amendment. If Modification were eliminated, 120 would privately favor Repeal. As- suming an actual vote in Congress, however, with political considerations controlling, Repeal would get only 64 out of 200 votes and Modification...
Answer: While there is reason for treating Prohibition as a red herring to drive the people of the U. S. off the main trail, it may be faced. Progressive opinion is against any blanket repeal of the 18th Amendment which does not substitute a rational system of public control over alcohol...
...popular election of the President (without which no Third Party can make any effective headway); 2) tariff revision to in-clude the transfer of flexible authority from the White House to the Capitol; 3) Unemployment insurance; 4) co-ordinate State and Federal job agencies (the vetoed Wagner bill); 5) repeal of the War- time espionage act; 6) a law against Federal wiretapping; 7) admission of Cabinet members to Congressional debates; 8) removal of postal censorship over the Press; 9) no more deportations of political refugees...
...rule of the "nine" in whose hands Billy left the city's virtue and the keys to heaven. The Boston Puritans, a strictly non-commercial ball team, has been organized to combat the menace. But they refuse to play the evangelical boys until they are permanently assured of the repeal of Sunday Baseball...