Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeal of the 15th Amendment...
Although the majority of the 11 commissioners who drew up the report agreed with Dean Pound in his move for moderation, nevertheless the two who advocated repeal, the two in favor of further trial, and the three champions (including Chairman G. W. Wickersham) of stricter enforcement, succeeded in forcing a compromise which advocated essentially no change whatever...
...general recommendations, which are dry in effect and in implication. But six members, in the individual opinions which all had the privilege of setting forth, strike a note not at all in accord with the conclusions of the committee as a whole. Two of them advocate absolute repeal, and the four others would have the Amendment revised to lodge with Congress the power to (1) continue the present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit the matter in whole or in part to the States, or (3) "to adopt any system of effective control." The only consistent members...
...other proposals, on which the committee was in general agreed, show a desire to stop once and for all the impractical ideas that are so widely held on prohibition. It is realized that repeal even if desirable was out of the question with a solid block of dry states in the South. Likewise, it is quite clear that light wines and beer even if desirable could never be obtained since the vote would be divided among three groups...
Pleased was the Press to hear Governor Olson recommend repeal of Minnesota's famed law for the summary suppression of newspapers (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). He argued its "possibilities for abuse make it an unwise...