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Righteousness Run Riot. Among sophisticated Indians there is a growing sentiment for repeal, especially in regions like Bombay, which not only lose revenue through prohibition but must pay the heavy cost of enforcement. New Delhi's Hindustan Times claims that "crime has been on the increase ever since prohibition was introduced" and that gangs "terrorize whole localities and have made stabbing and shooting an everyday affair in the city." But though many of them privately agree with the Hindustan Times, few members of India's ruling Congress Party dare to say so openly for fear of exposing themselves...
...meeting of the Central Prohibition Committee. Almost to a man, committee members agreed that bootlegging is on the increase and "at least in urban areas" prohibition has failed. None of this, however, deterred Minister of State (and noted dry) Balwant Datar, who insisted any suggestion of relaxation or repeal was a "counsel of despair." Instead, Datar called for sterner laws and more rigorous enforcement, and in a final example of righteousness run riot, urged that in all trials involving prohibition violatiors "the burden of proof be shifted from the state to the accused...
Prohibition: "I was always against it. I was one of the leaders for Repeal and faced the best political maneuverer I have ever dealt with, Wayne B. Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League. He produced an absolute miracle...
...prefers raising Shetland ponies to playing politics but has never lost an election. Anderson has been a topflight county attorney and state senator, has served for the past four years as attorney general under his election victim, Democratic Governor George Docking. Liberal by Kansas G.O.P. standards (he favors repeal of the state's right-to-work laws), Anderson had to beat out his party's choice for the nomination in a primary. Major campaign promise: more cash for state schools...
Specifically, the picketers will demand immediate action on civil rights embracing the provisions of Section III of the 1967 Civil Rights Act, repeal of the Senate fillbuster rule, and powerful new legislation. Article II gives the President power to call out Federal judges to hear appeals in charges of discrimination in registration. However, this power has, so far, been unused...