Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate in 1907 (the year that Oklahoma became one of the United States). With the benefit of his greater Senatorial experience he was able to make the shrewdest observation yet offered on inflation: "If Cheap Money is what the country needs, why don't we repeal the laws against counterfeiting...
...hard Congressmen liked that sonorous part of President Roosevelt's State of the Union message. But when he said, "We are, fortunately, building a strong and permanent tie between the legislative and executive branches of the Government," eyebrows shot up. Senator McNary (Republican) called it "the finest repeal of the Constitution I have ever heard...
...excitement incident to Repeal, everyone has neglected one time-tried branch of home industry, to wit, the moonshine trade; the rugged enthusiast in the bathtub, alone, of all the people, has seen the light. The solution of our ills is to encourage the moonshiner, the mountaineer, and his bootleg brand; he should be allowed to issue his product under a special tax, microscopic in dimensions, and should be praised for his simple, homespun way of living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand...
...over, then replants; it is in no sense a cheap, shoddy imitation; it is a true invention, a step on the road of Progress. It should be introduced to those who do not know it, and made the American drink par excellence, supplanting all the high priced children of repeal, and interior, illegitimate offspring of Prohibition...
...Repeal...