Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeal of the 18th Amendment looked so close last week that even a good professional Dry like Prohibition Director Alfred Vernon Dalrymple was in favor of letting distilleries resume production immediately under government license to stock up for the coming deluge. "Major" Dalrymple, a hefty, red-faced A. E. F. veteran who spent years chasing 'leggers, personally opposes Repeal which would cost him his job. Yet at New Orleans he declared...
What prompted the Dalrymple statement was the fact that there is today under government bond in the U. S. only about 6,000,000 gal. of medicinal hard liquor. After Repeal the country would gulp this all down in a few weeks. Because it takes four years to age real whiskey, an acute domestic liquor shortage looms unless production is again permitted. As it is unlikely that the Federal Government will grant that permission in advance of final Repeal, foreign liquor manufacturers have amassed enormous surplus stocks for shipment into the U. S. at a moment's notice...
...Repeal last week passed the halfway mark and swept on unchecked. Votings...
They pledged themselves to "watch the polls [lest] the Wets put across any crooked counting of the votes" at forthcoming Repeal elections. They heard Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church deplore the fact that "a very high public official, who should represent in his personal attitude the sacred ideals of the people, begins his summer vacation in a sailing vessel on Sunday."* They learned from Mrs. Dora B. Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded...
...other European wheat consuming states some lowering of their tariffs and embargoes against wheat. Informally Italian representatives at the Conference said that Premier Mussolini had given them "every assurance of full co-operation with the great wheat producing states." The French delegation raised the issue of wine. With repeal of the 18th Amendment in sight, the U. S.. they declared, could make a great international gesture by agreeing to permit Frenchmen to trade their surplus of wine for part of the U. S. surplus of wheat...