Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for New York State's convention on repeal of the 8th Amendment was bald, square-cut Vivian Burnett, original of Little Lord Fauntleroy, written by his mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett, in 1886. Now a free lance writer, he told newshawks: "I was a perfectly normal boy-I got myself just as damn dirty as the other boys. I could write a book about what Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from...
...candy trade. Incidentally it puts Owens-Illinois in line for a dividend of 8,000 cases of 15-year aged-in-the-wood whiskey which National Distillers has declared for holders of record Sept. 15. 1934.* More important to Owens-Illinois is the prospect that in case of Repeal it will make the bottles in which Old Grandad, Old Taylor, Green River, Mount Vernon, Sunny Brook, McBroyer and other National Distillers' Products brands will be distributed...
...less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
First Engagement of the fight was pitched in Michigan last week. It resulted in a 3-to-1 victory for Wets and the 21st Amendment. The vote: for Repeal, 834,675; against...
Next day Wisconsin instructed all 15 of its convention delegates to vote for Repeal April...