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...there was last week a small but possibly significant turn in the Prohibition tide. It came when large, benign Representative George Scott Graham of Pennsylvania, 79-year-old Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that he would allow his committee to hold public hearings on seven bills for repeal or modification of the 18th Amendment. The date...
...special hero of the day. Successor to Andrew John Volstead as the head of the Judiciary Committee, he promised to "lift the lid" at the hearings and give the Wets all the latitude they wanted to make their points against the 18th Amendment. In addition to the repeal resolutions, arguments will be heard on 2-75% beer and on the Canadian system of government liquor control. Prime speaker for the Wets: Representative James Montgomery Beck, onetime Solicitor General of the U. S., expert guide through the legalistic mazes of the Constitution...
...prank. On either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol, and accounts of action to come before the House Judiciary Committee for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...president of the Massachusetts Anti-Blasphemy League, which was founded about 25 years ago and has at times attained a membership of approximately 35,000 persons and of which there is a chapter at Harvard, favors the repeal...
This fact recently came to light when in the Legislature a bill of repeal proposing to do away with the old law was sponsored by a group of clergymen, among whom was C.R. Skinner 17. Upon recommendation of the Judiciary Committee the House voted a withdrawal of the repeal bill and it is expected that the Senate will act in a like manner when the proposal is brought before it this afternoon...