Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as thousands of weary doorbell-ringing crusaders put away their pencils, it appeared that 60 petitions (including four referenda for the repeal of existing laws) had squeaked under the deadline for filing. If sufficient numbers of their signatures are verified from voting lists, they will appear on the ballot, November...
Also popular were six petitions proposing repeal or modification of the State's 3% sales...
...Drought in 1930. As a member of the House he had helped foster the Prohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act. He had been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy himself. Labor knows him as one of its early champions, but he voted for coal and oil tariffs before the New Deal made Business unfashionable...
Even in the depths of Repeal, canned Sterno and bay rum as thirst quenchers appealed to only a few U. S. citizens. Post-Repeal's more bizarre tastes run to such concoctions as orange gin, lemon gin and mint gin, products of London & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., a distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
...will not repeal the reforms of the New Deal. But we will put people back to work...