Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modification or repeal?69.54% of all the voters in the poll; 29.11% for modification, 40.43% for repeal...
...States and the District of Columbia, more than a 40%. vote for repeal...
...Majorities in five States voted for repeal : Connecticut, Louisiana, New Jersey, Nevada, New York...
...Brown had weasled on this issue with a declaration for a referendum and Messrs. Grundy and Davis had mumbled the old formula about "law enforcement." The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment supported Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. for Governor and Francis Hermann Bohlen for Senator on a Dry-law repeal platform...
...bring to you no panacea for this deplorable condition. I know of no magical solution. ... I believe the way out of the present difficulty . . . involves a repeal of the 18th Amendment [tremendous applause] and the substitution therefor of an Amendment which will restore to the States the power to determine their policy toward the liquor traffic and vest in the Federal Government power to give all possible protection and assistance to those States that desire complete prohibition...