Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Congressman Dyer surrendered all pride in his law. He considered it a failure. He did what few legislators ever do-offered a bill (H.R. 10423) to repeal his earlier handiwork. His reason: U. S. Judges under the Dyer Act are obliged to jail young boys for joyriding in borrowed cars across State lines while big commercially successful car thieves are escaping from U. S. enforcement agents...
...Union League Club of Manhattan,, citadel of conservative Republicanism, queried its 1,800 members, found 932 for repeal, 264 for modification, 109 for enforcement...
Seventeen per cent favored full enforcement; 83% asked for repeal...
...Literary Digest tabulated the first 291,588 answers to 20,000,000 questionnaires sent out, found 118,934 for repeal, 91,915 for modification, 80,739 for enforcement. Drys had been loudly warned by Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, publicist for the Anti-Saloon League, not to vote in the Digest-poll, which he flayed as "uncontrolled, valueless." Wets accused Dr. Cherrington of trying to set up an alibi...
Whatever the reaction of college newspapers to this particular plan may be, their immediate field is to collect opinion and facts before taking a stand on a definite program for either enforcement, repeal, or modification...