Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk one-day session, the Convention voted to picket all tearooms employing other than Association tea-leaf readers, appeal to President Roosevelt to push repeal of state statutes outlawing fortune telling. Cried diminutive President Perota: "Legalizing fortune telling would eliminate the quacks. . . . Clairvoyants could be licensed. They would first have to show they had ability." Then for the press the convening seers prophesied: continued Recovery, a "happy" U. S. until 1941, a 4-to-3 World Series victory for the New York Yankees, re-election of President Roosevelt. At pains to be diplomatic, President Perota hedged: "But according...
...Senator Couzens he had in his favor the following facts: 1) he was born on June 23, 1894, the same day that the then Duchess of York gave birth to the now Edward VIII; 2) he was the son of a onetime Democratic Congressman; 3) he was a pre-Repeal Dry; 4) he weighed 200 lb.; 5) he was an Elk, Mason, Moose, Odd Fellow, Shriner, Legionary; 6) his favorite expression was "By Golly"; 7) he was a tireless and sometime tiring speaker; 8) his wife, Clara, played the harp. But all these things combined were outweighed by the fact...
...Attorney General in the Harding Administration, was twice (1924 & 1926) elected Republican Attorney General of New York despite landslides for Democratic Governor Alfred E. Smith. In 1928 Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated him for Governor. After that "General" Ottinger, who enjoys a tall weak highball, spent his time propagandizing for Repeal. Keeping a finger in national politics, he organized a Landon-for-President movement in Manhattan long before the conventions, visited Alf M. Landon in Topeka before his nomination. Unimpressed by the Ottinger "Landon Clubs" John Hamilton pointedly neglected them when he organized the Landon pre-convention campaign in New York...
...Disillusioned by "President Roosevelt's faithlessness to the Democratic platform of 1932,"Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, who as Mrs. Charles H. Sabin worked for Roosevelt and Repeal in 1932, announced in New York that she will campaign this year for Governor Landon. Said she: "He will encourage thrift and self-reliance and will not sneer at success...
...marks the end of the summer doldrums for Industry, the beginning of the autumn upswing and better business. The summer of 1936 was not so commercially spectacular as the summer of 1933, when Industry was racing the approaching Blue Eagle and the threat of inflation, and the imminence of Repeal was intoxicating the stockmarket (TIME, July 21, 1933). Nevertheless, this week as Labor Day came & went, most U. S. businessmen concluded that the summer of 1936 had been good for trade, that autumn should, by experience, be even better. Indices of a smiling summer...