Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Reason. On May 24, 1930, the Washington state Republican convention, at Bellingham, adopted a plank calling for the repeal of the Amendment. Also swerved from Hoover leadership by opposing entrance into World Court...
...Investigated: 1) lobbying; 2) Congressional campaign expenses; 3) Communists; 4) chain and branch banking; 5) naval aviation; 6) post office leases; 7) repeal of the 18th Amendment; 8) the Pure Food & Drug Administration...
Appended to Major Campbell's statement was this further declaration: "I have reached the following conclusion: Prohibition is not the logical solution for temperance in our form of Government, and I now publicly advocate the repeal of the 18th Amendment before the nation is consumed in the fires of its consequences...
Newsgatherers made hot copy of Mrs. Henrietta Crosman Campbell, famed old-time actress, friend of many a stage celebrity, wife of the retiring administrator. They credited her with saying: "I was a very, very happy woman when he came out and took a stand for Prohibition repeal. . . . All our friends drank. . . . Naturally, we didn't want to feel like pariahs whenever we went out. So there was nothing to do except stay at home. That's what we did. . . . I am very happy that the Major is convinced enforcement of Prohibition is impossible." Last week Mrs. Campbell indignantly...
Rumor. In anticipation of a repeal of branch-banking restrictions, two potent groups of Pittsburgh bankers were said last week to be sponging up many out-of-town banks. Through their Mellbank Corp., the Mellons were reported to be lining up at least 50 banks. Acting independently, the Hillman interests of the Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co. were said to have 25 banks in view...