Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ride on the subway that so conveniently links Cambridge and Boston must have noticed the advertisement, paid for by the W. C. T. U., which, accepted as truthful, would carry a pofgnant and commanding appeal. "Protest your children," it reads, "Make out highways dryways. Vote No for the repeal of the Bady Volstead Act on Nov. 4th." To make the message more arresting, the advertisement carries a realistic picture of what seems to be a drunken driver, a smashed automobile, and a mangled body...
...enforcement has . . . collapsed. You cannot reform a nation by sending respectable citizens, as fast as the courts can act, to jail or prison for doing what they and their ancestors for generations have regarded as a matter of private concern. . . . The Democratic Party of Connecticut stands for the repeal. . . . Action is imperative if the people of the United States are to be kept from degenerating into a nation of gin-drinkers...
...cast. True, both the Democrats and the Republicans meeting in solemn conclave in various states have rigidly avoided a definite stand in their party planks with a persistence that is nothing more nor less than praiseworthy. The repeal of Prohibition will be successful only at the polls. The parties exist for another purpose, difficult though it may be to ascertain that purpose. Twenty-nine new supporters have found their way into the sacred halls of justice down Washington way. According to the prognostications of local experts the wet candidate in Massachusetts should attain a comfortable majority in November...
...After he had returned silently to Washington, the V. of F. W. went to Annapolis for a crab feast, which afflicted several hundred delegates with ptomaine poisoning. When enough of them had recovered to hold a final business session, the organization adopted (873-to-637) a resolution demanding the repeal of the 18th Amendment...
Prohibition. Prime Minister Bennett during his campaign threatened to have repealed for economic reasons the new Canadian law forbidding the export of liquor to the U. S. Should Minister MacNider fail to avert such repeal, the whole Prohibition smuggling question would come up afresh between the two countries...