Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission considers . . . enforcement in the country as a whole unsatisfactory. . . . The Commission by a large majority does not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment. . . . I am in accord with this view. I am in unity with the spirit of the report in seeking constructive steps to advance the national ideal of eradication of the social and economic and political evils of the [liquor] traffic . . . at the same time facing with an open mind the difficulties which have arisen under this experiment...
...country, already badly befuddled by the Commission's contradictions, wondered what this new contradiction might mean. While emphasizing that his Commission did not favor repeal, the President had played down the fact that a majority of his Commission favored immediate revision. In emphatically repudiating his Commission's suggested method for revision and in the same breath rehearsing his "own duty" to enforce the law "without equivocation or reservation," he had apparently slammed the revision door shut in his Commission's face. The Commission had reported Wet. The President had plumped Dry?more squarely than he ever plumped since entering politics...
...Modificationists?Commissioners Lemann & Baker?were for outright repeal...
Knocked Down. The Commission set up and knocked down various substitutes for Prohibition-as-is. Repeal of the 18th Amendment would be a "backward step" to re-admit the saloon. To permit State option would be nullification. Beer of 2.75% would satisfy nobody who "has developed a taste for intoxicating beverages." Government sale would not be "expedient...
...Repealer Lemann. Boldest of all was short, swart Commissioner Lemann (pronounced "lemon"), law professor at Tulane University, onetime president of the New Orleans Bar Association, an independent Wet. He alone refused to sign the full report. Instead he filed a voluminous opinion of his own in which he advocated outright repeal of the 18th Amendment. Said he: "Intoxicating liquor is readily obtainable in every city of consequence in the country. ... If the law is not enforceable in cities [where dwell 40% of U. S. population] it cannot be considered enforceable as a national instrument. ... I cannot find any reasonable ground...