Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased to exist legally when it was swallowed up by the Justice Department's new Division of Investigation under John Edgar Hoover. All 1,800 Dry agents were dismissed, 1,000 rehired. Postmaster General Farley solemnly announced that enforcement would continue as before until Repeal...
...defeated two male rivals more than 4-to-1. Republicans did not even bother to nominate an opponent for her in the November election. No one was happier over her success than her bosom friends, the Franklin D. Roosevelts. Simultaneously Arizona became the 21st State to ratify the Repeal Amendment to the Constitution. Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year, aged 19, she married...
...under the Republican thumb of the Slemps, Father Campbell and Son Bascom, for 25 years. In 1922 Democrat Peery defeated the Slemp candidate, went to the House, stayed there six years. A modest, substantial citizen, married and the father of three, he made a cautious, sedate gubernatorial campaign, recommended Repeal of the 18th Amendment, ignored the noisy attacks of his opponents. Said he: "I am more accustomed to fighting Republicans than Democrats...
French brandy distillers of whom the greatest is Cognac's dignified, art collecting Senator James ("***") Hennessy have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distasteful dealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that "an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. "There still are some days...
...repeal by executive proclamation new taxes voted in the Industrial Recovery Act upon restoration of business or repeal of eighteenth amendment...