Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State governments throughout the land were fussing and fiddling with their own regulations for local sale and consumption. Ten have already decided when & why & how drinks may be served (see box). Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Massachusetts had barely a week left before Repeal to make up their minds what...
...Illinois the prospect of State liquor control before Repeal dimmed last week when a commission appointed to draft a bill failed to agree. Two widely divergent measures, one leaving the question of control to local communities, the other setting up a State commission, were sent to the floor for debate...
Last week the U. S. liquor industry was nerved for its deadline of Dec. 5, for a stampede into the virgin territory of a billion-dollar business. When Utah, Pennsylvania or Ohio sounded the bugle of Repeal, 20 states with one-half the U. S. population would automatically be open for liquor sales...
...liquor bill passed by the Massachusetts legislature will not, I hope, set the keynote for liquor legislation after repeal. After giving its sanction to taverns, the bill went on to allow music and dancing in them, and then executed an ingenuous right about face by prohibiting the admission of women. It is useless to comment on a bill so muddled and ridiculous as this; what it reveals about the Massachusetts legislature may be important, but it will obviously be amended before any police agency undertakes the task of its enforcement...
...With the repeal of Prohibition, big bootleggers are turning to the gasoline racket. This week in Manhattan officials of nine Eastern States will meet to discus? the bootleg menace, try to coordinate tax collecting efforts...