Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students who replied to the questionnaire, 458 said that they thought prohibition a failure. As a solution to the problem, 352 suggested government control, 101 were in favor of light wines and beer, 82 favored strict enforcement, and 65 declared for total repeal...
...close of a mass meeting on Prohibition in the Union last night, ten of the five hundred students who filled the Large Living Room raised their hands to signify that they were in favor of retaining the 18th Amendment in its present form. A majority favored complete repeal of the amendment and all subsequent Prohibition legislation, while a fair proportion signified approval of a program of constructive nullification in favor of states rights, sponsored by the Harvard Debating Council...
Item 1. It does not repeal the Eighteenth Amendment (that requires a two-thirds majority in the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, as well as a two-thirds majority in Congress...
...does repeal legislation providing a penalty for infractions of the provisions of the amendment...
Last week, however, when the House Judiciary Committee resumed hearings on resolutions to repeal the 18th Amendment, a first serious crack was found in Big Business solid support of Prohibition. Its Wet representatives spoke out their opposition loud enough for little men to hear...