Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find where the fate of National Prohibition will eventually be decided, look away down South in Dixie. Next week Alabama. Arkansas and Tennessee will hold elections to ratify the 21st Amendment. "If all three agree to Repeal," said Postmaster General Farley last week, "it will all be over...
...help make it "all over," President Roosevelt for the first time since taking office came out with a public announcement of his position on Repeal. To avoid stirring up unnecessary dissensions within his own party, he had refrained from blunt utterances on the matter while Congress was in session, contented himself with broad hints that if the 18th Amendment were revoked by Jan. 1, he would drop special emergency taxes on gasoline, dividends, corporate profits to finance the Federal building program (TIME. May 29). Last week he took occasion to telegraph National Committeeman Leon McCord of Alabama...
...Southwest Harbor on Mt. Desert Island Mrs. Roosevelt popped in to spend a brief hour with her husband. Then she motored on toward Campobello, N. B., the President's destination. Son James took the Bernadou back to Boston to vote as a delegate in Massachusetts' Repeal convention. Scheduled to return on the Bernadou was Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, just back from the Geneva Arms Conference. He and the President would talk things over as the Amberjack II cruised north into colder weather...
Unless deposit guarantee produces a wave of failures among banks that cannot get into the system, thereby forcing repeal of the law, national bankers have no way of avoiding the tax except by leaving the Federal Reserve system. This some sound banks in financial centres would doubtless do except for the numerous disadvantages which nonmembership imposes. Believing that the only hope for the success of deposit guarantee is that the Federal Government may be able to force bankers to be not only good but wise, commercial bankers found themselves standing between the Devil and Deposit Guarantee...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. stumped the State at the head of a vigorous Prohibitionist faction, told Indianapolitans: ''Indiana is the first State in which we have had an even chance. If we can win here we can prevent Repeal." Day after the voting, resilient Prohibitor Francis Scott McBride was declaring: "The vote in Indiana is heartening to those fighting Repeal. We had decided in advance that anything less than a 2-to-1 victory for Repeal would be a moral victory for us there." He thereupon vanished in Alabama. "The Wets had the support of both the national...