Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are no more educators in Massachusetts; they are all now propagandists for the State and Federal Constitutions!" thundered Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night in denouncing the Teachers' Oath Bill, to climax the anti-Oath drive which ends today when the second Repeal Bill will be discussed at the State House...
...petition which we hold in our hands requesting the repeal of chapter 71 of the General Laws, Section 30A (The Dorgan Teachers' Oath Bill) does not state any of the provisions of the said law nor does it correctly interpret the spirit of the law as clearly indicated in section 11A which for the benefit of those uninformed signers of the petition, we have reprinted below...
Accordingly, the advertising watchword of the $2,000,000,000 liquor industry, sounded by Seagram's in the first weeks of Repeal and since echoed in the publicity of most of the big whiskey makers, is MODERATION...
...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...
...future "problems and policies" which the Spirits Institute feels it must solve and formulate were apparently considered by the industry as too "broad" to be handled by plugging, business-like Dr. James M. Doran. executive secretary who wet-nursed the business through the ordeal of Repeal regulations, or Distiller Owsley Brown of Louisville, whom Mr. Morgan replaces as the Institute's president. What the Institute was out for was a Tsar of high power, smoothness and influence. In fact, among those first approached was none other than Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...