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Word: repeals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxi-drivers and police of Manhattan used to call him by his first name. Last year Artist Crosby bought a full page in the Washington Herald, dealt with Prohibition much as in last week's attack, announced that he had sworn never to drink again "with or without repeal" (TiME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Crosby v. Capone | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

College drinkers care little what happens to the Eighteenth Amendment. They drink--amendment or no amendment but with repeal of the prohibition act a college education would cost them less. On the other hand, the gents of the underworld focus their attention on the activities of the lawmakers. Their jobs depend upon a continuance of the present lawlessness of liquor sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sad | 2/12/1931 | See Source »

...crime problems cannot call a halt to thoughts and suggestions toward prohibition repeal or revision. Educationally or economically the underworld can be conquered--victory being only a matter of 10 or more years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sad | 2/12/1931 | See Source »

...seems to have been consistently a subject of envy among those opposed to the Eighteenth Amendment. A few months ago the Association against the Prohibition Amendment issued a pamphlet under the encouraging title, "England's Solution of the Liquor Problem." The view taken is typical of many advocates of repeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BETTER 'OLE | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

...that Prohibition is woman's favorite law. In a terse clear statement she explained: "Adequate enforcement is impossible without the support of a much larger proportion of our population than it now commands. I ... favor an immediate attempt at change. ... I favor revision of the Amendment rather than its repeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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