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Last week, final compilation of another Prohibition referendum in North Dakota, showed that some 86,000 voters were still Dry, that some 82,000 voters wanted to repeal the State enforcement law. Repealers were in the majority in two of North Dakota's three Congressional districts...
...Repeal of Prohibition...
...finally called for a cut of $222,495,000- a little less than the original Mellon limit. Changes were as follows: REDUCTIONS Reducing the 13½% tax on corporate incomes, to 12% $123,450,000* Increasing the $2,000 exemption on corporate incomes, to $3,000 12,000,000 Repeal of the 3% automobile sales tax 66,000,000 Raising from $20,000 to $30,000 that part of an in dividual's earned income which is credited with a 25% 4,500,000 Increasing the 75-cent exemption on admission tickets to $3 15,000,000 Increasing...
Because the renowned Pilsner beer industry of Czechoslovakia would profit hugely by a repeal of the U. S. Eighteenth Amendment, Zealot Maresch has long enjoyed complete toleration and some quiet encouragement by the shrewd burghers of Prague. Last week however public sentiment turned bitterly against him overnight, when he printed what was construed as an affront to the political idol of Czechoslovaks, famed Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. As everyone knows, Dr. Benes was the chief lieutenant of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in their heroic and successful struggle to create the Czechoslovak State during the World...
...platform which was adopted included a plank declaring prohibition was not a partisan issue and that law enforcement was necessary. A wet plank asking for the repeal of the Volstead Act was voted down 801 to 291. Further planks called for the prohibition of injunctions, and condemned American intervention in Nicaragua on behalf of American capitalists. A plank introduced by a Porto Rican delegate calling for independence for Porto Rico was defeated without a record vote...