Word: schrepel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Legislature, Representatives George W. Plummer and Chris F. Schrepel, were sponsors of a bill declaring that any beverage containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol was "intoxicating" in Kansas. The Plummer-Schrepel bill passed the House, then passed the Senate and went to conference because of a Senate amendment. That amendment specifically classed malt beverages containing not more than 3.2% of alcohol as non-intoxicating. Last week the bill thus amended came again before the House, still bearing the names of Messrs. Plummer & Schrepel...
...House voted, 75 to 36, to make the Plummer-Schrepel 3.2% beer bill the new prohibition law of Kansas. Democratic Governor Walter A. Huxman had already announced that he would sign any prohibition bill providing a reasonable definition of "intoxicating" beverages. Thus, last week, a squiggle of his pen made two Drys the unwilling fathers of legal beer in Kansas...
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