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FDR: I call specific attention to the authority given by the 21st Amendment to the Government to prohibit transportation or…

On the recordDecember 4, 1933
I call specific attention to the authority given by the 21st Amendment to the Government to prohibit transportation or importation of intoxicating liquors into any State in violation of the laws of such State.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Proclamation 2065—Date of Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment

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