Archive Report
Archive Report
Probable Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment on December 5
Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment will take place, it may now be predicted with virtual certainty, on December 5, nine months and one-half following submission to the states of the Twenty-first, or repeal, amendment on February 20, 1933.1 Virginia became on October 3 the 32nd state to vote in unbroken succession for repeal of federal prohibition. Florida is expected to take similar action on October 10. On November 7 the voters of six more states—Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Utah—will go to the polls to record their verdict on the question, making 39 states in all that will have acted by that date.2 Ratification conventions will be held in four states—-Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, ...