Word: repeals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Most spectacular turnover in last fortnight's Repu/blican primary was the defeat for renomination in the 2nd (Omaha) Congressional District of Representative Willis Gratz Sears, 70, by Howard Malcolm ("Mac") Baldrige, 36. Congressman Sears ran as an Uncompromising Dry, a supporter of Grundy tariff rates. Nominee Baldrige campaigned for repeal of the 18th Amendment and against an exorbitant tariff. Turned out of public office for the first time in 36 years, out of the House after eight years Congressman Sears took his defeat bitterly...
...Afterward she declared: "I'll run as a Dry in the election. I've always been a Dry and I don't switch on things." Because Illinois Democrats had nominated James Hamilton Lewis, a thoroughgoing Wet for the Senate and had declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, a clean-cut Wet-&-Dry contest between Nominees McCormick and Lewis was in prospect...
...heartily approve my party's declaration that it will be responsive to the popular expression on these referendum questions. ... If a majority are recorded as favorable to repeal of the 18th Amendment, I stand ready, when elected Senator, to obey their mandate and I shall vote to submit the question of its repeal to the several States. If the expressed will of the people is for modification of the Volstead Act, my course would be in sympathy with the principle so approved...
...committee decided to forestall a public outburst on the convention floor by polling by mail the full membership. On its own authority the committee sent each and every member two questions: 1) Do you favor a referendum by the Bar Association on the 18th Amendment? 2) Do you favor repeal of the 18th Amendment? The answers were to be returned in separate envelopes. The executive committee would first count the vote on Question No. 1 to see if the membership approved of the policy of an A. B. A. referendum. If a majority did approve, answers to Question...
...Jouett Shouse, the Democratic national executive chairman, last week declared: "I don't regard Prohibition as a national issue between the two parties in this election." However he did not weasel on his personal position: "There must be a change in the Prohibition laws. There should not be a repeal of the 18th Amendment without offering some constructive substitute. I believe that will take the form of State control...