Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/17/1940
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I call specific attention to the authority given by the 21st Amendment to the Government to prohibit transportation or importation of intoxi...
I do hereby proclaim that the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was repealed on the fifth day of December, 1933.
The object of your organization is, in my opinion, a very worthy one, and the efforts of its members toward the successful attainment of suc...
It is my sincere hope that this work may be carried on with even greater success through future years.