Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed to realize that he was making little or no headway in diverting public attention from the liquor issue. Many an observer guessed that he was simply awaiting the report of the National Law Enforcement Commission as a basis for revision (if any) of his policy. Though he opposes repeal of the 18th Amendment, his public record is not so Dry as to exclude every form of modification. He is still, insist his secretariat, open-minded on the "experiment noble in motive...
...Prohibition speculation again became fashionable. A Senate investigating committee disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first in a decade, on the repeal of the 18th Amendment (TIME, Feb. 10 et seg.). With a fresh Wet Movement obviously on, the Literary Digest conducted a nation-wide poll on Prohibition which showed that out of 4,806,464 persons balloting, only 1,464,098 favored existing Dry conditions whereas 3,342,366 wanted some...
...muddled as ever. They were yet unable to unite their full strength on a unanimous program. Definitions of what made a Wet were lacking beyond the generalization that he favored a more liberal Prohibition policy. At one end of the anti-Prohibition fighting line stood those who favored outright repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of prohibitory powers, if any, to the States. Wet opinion shaded down through vague forms of modification and foxy redeterm-nations of "non-intoxicating" formulae to the timid "beer-&-light-wine" pleas at the other end of the line. Result: the Wet ranks moved...
...repeal of the Bady Volstead act, while it would probably have very small immediate effect as far as actual conditions go here in Massachusetts, would have the advantage of serving notice to the rest of the country that the voters of one of its most populous states had become convinced that the present Prohibition situation was far from being the best solution to the vital difficult problem of intemperance...
...would be appreciated by a large number of citizens if the influence of the W. C. T. U. could be counteracted by advertisements representing the other side of the case. A possible advertisement might be:- "Vote Yes for the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act on Nov. 4th., and help relieve our country of crime, graft, hypocrisy, racketeers, wholesale disrespect of law and order--in short, of Prohibition...