Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the most cockeyed piece of tax legislation ever imposed in a modern country. And if I am elected, I shall recommend immediate repeal of this vicious method of taxation...
Seeking a cause for this breach between Memphis' Boss and the Nashville Administration, quidnunes recalled that the McAlister organization had grievously disappointed Crump by failing to repeal Tennessee's prohibition law. Gordon Browning, a hefty, thick-thatched, loose-lipped A. E. F. artillery captain who served twelve years (1923-35) in the House of Representatives, is personally and politically Dry, but promised to advocate a State referendum on liquor...
Died. Wilfred Washington Fry, 61, onetime Y.M.C.A. executive, head of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., potent Philadelphia advertising agency; of complications following influenza; in Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College Hospital which last year elected him its president. A Baptist and ardent Dry, he accepted no post-Repeal liquor accounts, dropped Canada Dry when that firm began to sell gin, whiskey, beer (TIME, Sept...
...like most learning, was produced in winter, left to mellow through the hot weather.* Distillers counted whiskey's maturity in summers because they thought that season gave whiskey its best bouquet. Last week this old-time cycle came back into the liquor business for the first time since Repeal. National Distillers, No. 1 U. S. whiskey producer, announced that seven of its nine distilleries had been shut down until October. With heated warehouses, National's decision had nothing to do with summer's effect on whiskey's flavor. Reason given was that National plants, after running...
...liquor business, overproduction really means not just overproduction but more overproduction than seems advisable. From Repeal to June 30, 1934, total U. S. production of whiskey was 62,352,666 proof gal. while only 18,875,964 gal. were consumed. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, production was 149,112,923 gal., consumption 50,780,940 gal. In the six months ending December 31, 1935, production was 96,363,859, consumption 36,242,929. Any other industry which deliberately produced three times as much as it sold-and went on doing it for two and a half years...