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Word: schrepel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Unwilling Fathers | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Unwilling Fathers | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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