Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wine, a majority vote of two hundred for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment would seem to make all comment superfluous...
...wordy welter of the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on legislation for Dry law repeal there began to take unmistakable shape last week a new and significant agreement among potent Wet witnesses. Heretofore few active Wets have been in accord on a remedy for conditions against which they complained (TIME, March 3). In the 1928 campaign Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed changes in the Volstead Act to permit a higher percentage of alcohol in beverages in the discretion of the States. Thus, by his proposal, one State might permit no alcohol whatever, another State two, three, or ten percent...
...last week's Wet witnesses in Washington no longer trifled with such dilatory proposals. With a bold unity they demanded from the inexorably Dry House committee: Repeal of the 18th Amendment; Return of liquor control to the States, leaving to the Federal Government only its duty of restricting interstate liquor shipments. Such a Wet formula was known as "Repeal & Return." Political realists who considered such a drastic step impracticable and visionary alternately proposed that only the Volstead Act be repealed and the 18th Amendment be specifically amended to permit local option...
Replying to yours of the 2nd, I do not believe that it would be possible to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment...
...college issue. When the Harvard CRIMSON asks "What can college men do about Prohibition?" the obvious answer is "very little." The national aspects of the question are so large as to render ineffectual the small, shrill voice of the colleges. College debates, discussions, and petitions calling for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendmen' while they may be interesting, carry little weight. They indicate, however, that the educated youth of the country has an intelligent interest in the question. Harvard's movement in encourage such interest is therefore commendable...