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...beer-for-revenue outlook is better in the House than in the Senate where such Dry die-hards as Texas' Sheppard and Idaho's Borah can blockade action by talk. House Democrats who have announced their readiness to promote a quick beer vote include Majority Leader Rainey, Chairmen Collier of Ways & Means, Byrns of Appropriations, Pou of Rules...
Last month Pathfinder, an inexpensive weekly published in Washington, D. C. concluded a contest to supply the Democrats with a campaign slogan for 1932. Democratic Senators Copeland of New York, Sheppard of Texas and Dill of Washington were announced as the judges. More than 100,000 suggestions were submitted. A first prize of $100 was awarded J. J. Stubbs of Robstown, Tex. for the slogan: "Hee! Haw! We're coming back...
...Hastings of Delaware wanted short selling scrutinized. Senator McKellar of Tennessee proposed making War Hero Alvin C. York a captain. Senator Brookhart of Iowa wanted to knock out the gold standard. To make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller was the legislative ambition of Senator Sheppard of Texas. Senator Hull of Tennessee wanted to repeal tariff flexibility. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin proposed to appropriate $250,000,000 for direct unemployment relief whereas Senator Wagner of New York called for a two billion dollar bond issue for public works. Senator Kean of New Jersey would turn Muscle...
...wish I had not had those months as a 'law unto myself,' though nothing worse occurred in them than I have told, except that one night Maggie and I dressed up as two pirates. I had been reading that greatest of pirate stories Jack Sheppard, the only one of its kind that I had ever seen, and we were planning for the adventures that were before us as highwaymen of the sea, and were using, I am sorry to say, as much of the language that such men would have used as we knew, which was not much...
Another reason why the buyer was not specified in the Volstead Act was Dry fear that such a provision would endanger the bill's passage. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, framer of the 18th Amendment, was among those who reasoned thus. The Supreme Court's decision and a decade of Prohibition have now changed Senator Sheppard's attitude: last week he proposed a bill to make purchases criminal...