Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Byrum Gibson and Claude Chambers, prior to Repeal, were indicted in North Carolina for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Both had been convicted of similar charges before. Chambers had even pleaded guilty to the present charge but had not been sentenced. After Repeal a Federal Judge in North Carolina dismissed the indictments. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court. Last week Chief Justice Hughes handed down a unanimous decision freeing not only 'Leggers Gibson and Chambers but also some 13,000 others indicted under a law that vanished from the statute books Dec. 5. The Supreme Court held...
During the two or three weeks directly following repeal loud promises were made by the Federal government that it would guarantee that prices charged for liquor would not be excessive, even if it had to exercise its right to regulate prices charged by the distiller; whiskey at $1.50 a quart was predicted for the near future, and Health Commissioner Wynne of New York put through regulations which were supposed to insure the purity and correct labeling of liquor...
...Manhattan, dined with National Retail Dry Goods Association, and gave them a Johnsonian earful by way of reply: "Generally speaking the dead cats are fewer in number and have lost some of their ripeness and velocity. . . . But a storm is brewing. . . . There will be a distinct movement to repeal this act under this slogan of 'oppression of small enterprise.' It won't be a forthright open movement for repeal. These gentlemen do not dare do that. Some of this will be done by a Senator whom I love for his intestinal fortitude perhaps more than any Senator...
...prepared to send the Economy Bill to a special committee. When the compromise bill was finally introduced in the Lower House, the Democratic minority leader blocked consideration. And it was suddenly overshadowed by the Governors annual budget message. Frank as President Roosevelt's last fortnight, the message urges repeal of $81,000,000 of taxes including the 1 % sales tax and the 1% emergency income tax, revealed that last year's $100,000,000 deficit would be wiped out by next June...
...fine imitation of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. Unfortunately, Mr. Sunday spoke so fast that no one was able to hear him, not even these in the first rows who had been laced there because they were hard of hearing. Despite being understandable, Mr. Sunday was anything but inarticulate. Repeal, he says "will fill the streets with staggering, reeling, maudlin, stewing drunkards"; moreover, "you can no more reform a saloon than you can reform a pole-cat so it won't smell...