Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urbana, Illinois, April 1. In a ballot of nearly 4000 students at the University of Illinois 2134 favored modification of liquor laws, 1003 strict enforcement, 481 repeal and 209 the present situation. Twenty-one hundred and five admitted drinking, and of these 738 confessed to drunkenness...
...conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from Wet to Dry was the high spot of last week's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment on measures to modify or repeal national Prohibition.† In 1918 Mr. Taft, as Yale's Kent Professor of Law, was an avowed Wet. He wrote letters, later widely quoted, to his friend, Allen Lincoln of New Haven, opposing the 18th Amendment, predicting dire results from its ratification (TIME, Oct. 15, 1928). In 1923, as Chief Justice, he made a Yale commencement speech in which he called...
...Roper who, as a State legislator, sponsored the bill creating it. To the Judiciary Committee Mr. Roper recited the history of that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally led to the law's repeal as a failure and South Carolina's movement toward State Prohibition. Under questioning, he admitted that local conditions then were "not dissimilar" to national conditions now. His remedy: "I would get a group of men on the Wet side to sit down with a group of men on the Dry side...
Tabulation of the CRIMSON's poll of University sentiment on prohibition shows that the Harvard Debating Council's plan for the repeal of enforcement legislation was sustained by a count of 873-868, and not defeated by a margin of five votes, as stated in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...therefore feel that the results of the poll show only the sentiments of a class not well acquainted with earlier conditions, and do not warn of any nation-wide landslide toward repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, which will never come...