Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are about 400 speakeasies in Boston now that are dong a paying business. When repeal come in, all it'll be here next year, about 350 of them will get wiped out, and the exclusive clubs will go on far a few months and then come out in the open. It's going to mean unemployment for over 100,000 people in this country...
Aside from repeal of the eighteenth amendment of rather the submission of the repeal to the States, the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act and a few other pieces of important legislation the record of the past Congress is reflected in the extraordinary powers granted the President. No other President has been given authority all comparable to that vested in President Roosevelt by the seventy-third Congress...
Alabama broke the tradition of a solid Dry South by going 3-to-2 for Repeal. A sour political note was struck by Judge Oliver Day Street, Alabama's Republican national committeeman. who told his slim following: "If Repeal is a Democratic measure and if President Roosevelt desires it, this should be sufficient proof that it is no Republican measure and no Republican has any business voting...
Arkansas had the distinction of carrying Repeal around the turn and into the homestretch. Its vote was also about 3-to-2. Drys charged that Wets had paid the poll taxes of indigent citizens in return for their votes. After the balloting the Attorney General warned that Arkansas, under State law, was still "as dry as a camel's tonsils...
...week the State score for Repeal stood 20-to-0. Elections this year in 16 more States were definitely in sight after Colorado's Governor moved for a vote Sept. 4. Postmaster General Farley, who had led the Administration's anti-Prohibition campaign, marched in to see President Roosevelt and report on the situation. Said he afterwards: "The country is safe. We will have Repeal by Christmas. The President agrees with...