Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago 26 business bigwigs including such men as Sewell Avery, John V. Farwell, Albert D. Lasker, Alexander Legge, Col. A. A. Sprague, E. L. Ryerson Jr., Thomas E. Donnelley, were issuing a manifesto against Inflation. The Crusaders, who have found their Holy Grail. Repeal, announced a new crusade: against Inflation. Even inflationists began to trim their sails when they saw the Government's credit threatened. Senator Elmer Thomas was declaring: "There need be no fear of printing press inflation. . . . With gold adequately repriced the problem of future stabilization is simplified. . . . Our currency system must support business on a scale...
Thus did whiskey-producing Britain greet the 5-to-4 vote by which Utah last week became the 36th Repeal State.* Americans, knowing for some time that Repeal was a certainty, were not excited or much surprised that quiet Utah should have been the deciding State. Pennsylvania and Ohio were the 34th and 35th-Pennsylvania by a majority of 1,000,000 votes, Ohio by 800,000. Had Utah gone Dry the 36th State would have been Bourbon-producing Kentucky, where Repeal was last week ushered in with violence and bloodshed...
...pronounced disinclination on the part of dispensaries around the Square to sell hard liquor after December 6 was revealed in a survey conducted yesterday by the CRIMSON. Of a dozen prospective taverns visited, less than half showed a disposition to offer intoxicating beverages for sale after Repeal and many of those which did doubted whether the Legislature would permit them to sell...
North Carolina has gained the distinction of being the first state to vote against repeal. The latest returns show that it is definitely dry, the vote being: Against repeal, 214,000; For repeal, 97,000. South Carolina, another of the states voting yesterday, also gives indications of going dry; the latest figures from that state are: Against repeal, 33,000; For repeal, 31,000. Pennsylvania returns are overwhelmingly wet, with 96,000 votes for repeal, and 15,000 against it. Ohio is 2-1 in favor of repeal, while Utah and Kentucky are unknown...
Because magazine publishers find it hardest to get advertising and subscriptions in the summer, autumn is the time to start new magazines. The New Deal, Repeal, and low costs of paper and printing helped make this year's crop larger than usual...