Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good wine needs no bush, but U. S. wine-bibbers, still weltering in the unaccustomed freedom of Repeal, do not know good wine from bad. "Purposely delayed until the excitement of repeal had abated," The Complete Wine Book proposes to tell U. S. amateurs how to know, buy, store, make, serve wines. Far from first of its kind in the field, it is most complete, most up-to-date of the lot. Written plainly, authoritatively, it attacks the "ridiculous ritual" and "absurd snobbishness" which have sprung up around U. S. wine-drinking, appeals to common sense rather than pretentious palates...
Intoxicating candy containing 5% to 20% of alcohol caused unexpected work. Candymakers in Chicago, Jersey City and New York City, believing that Repeal gave them permission, flooded the country's school yards with such candy. But an unrepealed section of the Food & Drugs Act forbids anything of the sort...
...weeks after Repeal the Food & Drug Administration busily sampled whiskeys, found many an instance of short measure, many more instances of faked whiskeys (caramel and alcohol, pomace and raisin brandy, etc.). Grumbled Mr. Campbell last week: "It is self-evident that our present resources are wholly insufficient to patrol the entire interstate and import liquor traffic...
...party of a few political idealists and of strong but disreputable city machines built around the Irish Catholic and foreign-born slum vote. In the South it was the party of Property, Protestantism and Prohibition. In the North it was the party of the Common People, Catholicism and Repeal. Al Smith's defeat in 1928 was proof that these mixed assets were a liability. And even the success of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was due more to a fortuitous combination of these heterogeneous elements against Herbert Hoover and three years of Depression than to any real fusion...
...industry reported to NRA that 80% of all hotel mortgages were in default, that hotel bonds were selling for 15¢ on the dollar, that one-third of 15,000 or more hotels in the U. S. were unable to pay taxes, that 15% could not even meet payrolls. Repeal jumped restaurant receipts 40% and room receipts have run 12% above 1933, but most of those gains have been canceled by rising costs of labor, food and supplies. The Hotel Code is largely honored in the breach but still the hotels cannot make money...