Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard CRIMSON's poll of student sentiment on the Prohibition question in 14 leading universities, the Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
...students approached drink. And what does this mean? It means, simply, that these 15,000 are not abiding by a law that is offensive to their personal tastes. These figures represent 64 per cent of the total vote cast. An even larger number voted for modification or complete repeal. And the votes came from colleges that are vastly different in size and type...
...Enforcement-553,337 For Modification-598,252 For Repeal-848,751 Out of 40 States covered, thus far only two-Kansas and Tennessee-gave Enforcement a clear majority over the combined vote for Modification and Repeal, In Florida, Louisiana and Kentucky, Repeal votes exceeded those for Enforcement. Nineteen States gave a plurality to Repeal, 21 a plurality to Enforcement...
...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
Denver Colorado April 1, Returns from a straw vote conducted at the University of Denver indicate that 516 students favor repeal of the prohibition amendment 154 favor retention of it, and 94 wish modification permitting light wines and beer...