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...questions are in substance. (1) Are you in favor of enforcement of the present prohibition law? (2) Do you favor modification of the Volstead Act? (3) Do you favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment? The results of this straw vote must be taken seriously, for the results from previous Literary Digest ballots prior to presidential elections have been amazingly accurate...
...Symphony Hall determined to place the question in its more serious aspects before the audience. We felt and still feel that much more than a discussion of national prohibition was involved. It is true that we did not make the difference between national prohibition as one problem, and the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act another, stand out vividly enough. Had we done so, we might have won the debate. We do not complain of the decisions of the audience, nor of the decisions of the judges. We believe that they had good reason to vote as they...
...speakers stormed and thundered at Prohibition-as-is, but all their torrid talk did not change a single Dry vote in Congress. The occasion was the first official hearings given by the House to proponents of modification (TIME, Feb. 10). The Judiciary Committee had before it seven resolutions proposing repeal of the 18th Amendment, of the Volstead Act. Anticipating a large audience, Chairman Graham moved his committee temporarily into the vast white marble Caucus Room of the House office building. Some 200 spectators appeared, more than half of them women. Though their numbers looked measly in the great Caucus Room...
...Griggs, long a docile Dry, switched to Wetness just before the election, said that though he believed in Prohibition, he would vote to repeal the 18th Amendment if his district so desired. Obvious to all was his straddle. Mr. Granfield was 100% Wet. Republican Senator Gillett asked voters to elect Candidate Griggs as an endorsement of President Hoover. Democratic Senator Walsh asked them to elect Candidate Granfield as a repudiation of President Hoover's do-nothing policy on unemployment and industrial depression...
Impartial observers agreed upon the significance of the Massachusetts by-election, predicted, among other things, that: the State would elect a Wet Democratic Senator and perhaps Governor next November; it would vote to repeal its local Prohibition enforcement law-a wet step toward defeating the 18th Amendment already taken by New York, Nevada, Wisconsin, Montana, Maryland; the November Congressional elections would disclose an economic unrest in the tall grass, due to industrial depression, far deeper and darker than G. 0. Politicians now dare admit...