Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday Andrew J. Peters '95, former mayor of Boston, termed the CRIMSON and Debating Council proposals on prohibition "an intelligent plan." "I believe the repeal of the Volstead Act is, quite possible," said Peters, "but I doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment can ever be repealed. State control of the saloon, not Federal as advocated in your plan, is to be preferred. I don't believe the difficulties caused by having a wet state adjoining a dry state will be very great...
...plan of the Harvard Debating Council", continued Lewis, "I think that it is a comprehensive plan, but not one that would work. It evidently calls for the repeal of the Volstead Act and I am very much opposed to any such move. Despite all argument to the contrary,. I do not believe that the act is a failure. Its repeal would probably mean the traffic of light wines and beer, but this would not stop bootlegging. To prove this, allow me to point out the fact that in the short time granted to liquor houses to sell intoxicating liquors after...
...quote me as saying the Debating Council's prohibition plan is not worth a damn," R. D. Weston '86, noted wet, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "I don't see how, even with the Volstead Act repealed, the states could properly regulate the sale of admittedly intoxicating beverages; when the amendment, which your plan leaves untouched, forbids the manufacture and sale of such beverages. The only solution is to repeal the amendment and the Volstead Act both, which I am confident will be done. I have kept calm through the whole agitation and get a lot of amusement...
...Harvard Debating Council, outlined their plan and indicated what they felt were its advantages. Alexander Lincoln '95, former Assistant Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts and at present general counsel of the Constitutional Liberties League, then put forward an extreme wet point of view, advocating complete repeal of the 18th Amendment and restitution of the whole matter to the state governments...
Although stating that college men can do very little to repeal the 18th Amendment, the Yale editors agreed that "a valuable contribution to the issue", could be made by revealing the extent of drinking in college circles...