Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployment. . . . The issue that is causing the greatest trouble is Prohibition and in Ohio and Massachusetts some Republican candidates for the House may be defeated because of this. . . . In the always accurate poll of the Cincinnati Enquirer the Democratic candidate for the Senate [Robert Johns Bulkley'], who favors repeal of the 18th Amendment, is running 100% ahead of the Republican candidate [Roscoe Conkling McCulloch] who is dry. . . . Many dry Republicans may go down to defeat in the November election. But ... 7 cannot see the Democrats winning the House. However, the Republican majority will be reduced and this may give...
This is the first time in a somewhat long public career that I have been characterized as a "Dry." I am not a "Dry"; I have never been a "Dry," and I believe fervently in the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...President's appointment of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. When the keynoting Secretary mentioned the fine work of Dwight Whitney Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico, the delegates applauded long and loud. Mr. Morrow is a thoroughgoing Republican Wet and the New Yorkers were about to demand repeal of the 18th Amendment. Likewise Statesman Stimson had very little to say about government economy, because Federal expenditures have increased to offset unemployment. The World Court was disposed of in 15 words. Democratic critics, of course, could pick holes in the Stimson speech. They could mock the claim that...
Professor Carver is one of the campaign leaders against the repeal of the Massachusetts Dry Enforcement law, commonly called the "Baby Volstead" law, and has just written a pamphlet expressing his views on the subject...
Continuing, Professor Carver stated, "The dangers of repeal are very great. For instance, the wets are found of quoting figures showing an increase in the arrests for drunkenness since 1920. They refrain from saying that 1920 was a prohibition year, that we had had war-time prohibition since 1919, and constitutional prohibition since January...