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- 12/4/2008 - End to Prohibition marks 75 years
People across the USA might take time out from the economic crisis and its sober comparisons to the Great Depression today to toast the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.
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- 12/3/2008 - Raise a glass to the repeal of Prohibition
Here's a word that still can send chills through wine country: Prohibition.
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- 12/3/2008 - 75 years ago prohibition was repealed by the 21st amendment of the U.S. Constitution
December 5, 2008 will mark the 75th anniversary of enactment of the 21st amendment which repealed the 18th amendment and the federal repeal of prohibition.
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- 12/1/2008 - Ten Classic Cocktails To Make At Home
Some Americans will lift a glass of egg nog or mulled wine this weekend. Others are planning on breaking out the hard stuff.
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- 12/1/2008 - Debating the issue of Sunday sales
When Eric Weber serves pizza at his restaurant, The Slice, he passes it over the counters. But with beer, it's a different matter. To comply with Indiana's excise laws, he must walk any alcohol around the counter and set it on the tables where his customers are sitting.
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- 11/24/2008 - COLUMNIST: Prohibition lingers in Texas
Seventy-five years ago yesterday, Texas ratified the 21st Amendment to repeal National Prohibition. It did so after more than 60 percent of voters in the state rejected that failed experiment in social engineering.
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- 11/12/2008 - A toast to the end of Prohibition
Seventy-five years ago last month, Virginia ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S Constitution to repeal national Prohibition. It was ahead of seven states yet to ratify the amendment before repeal was completed on Dec. 5, 1933.
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- 9/9/2008 - Prohibition led to current alcohol woes
It was seventy-five years ago last month that Oregon ratified the 21st Amendment to repeal National Prohibition.
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- 9/6/2008 - Time for Minnesota to end the Sunday liquor-sale blues
As a longtime Minneapolis liquor-store owner, I have seen firsthand the demand for Sunday alcohol sales increasing. Times have changed, and so must Minnesota. The time has come for the state to allow liquor stores to be open on Sundays.
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- 8/30/2008 - Alabama's Prohibition Past
Seventy-five years ago this month, Alabama voted to ratify the 21st Amendment to repeal national Prohibition. Before Prohibition was established in 1920, the state had been an unusually strong supporter of outlawing alcoholic beverages. However, it quickly became apparent Prohibition was not having the desired outcomes.
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- 8/21/2008 - Prohibition wasn't the cure-all that Tennessee wanted
Seventy-five years ago this month, Tennessee ratified the 21st Amendment, to end national Prohibition. Calling for its repeal was a dramatic turnabout for the state, which had earlier very strongly supported it. Indeed, the General Assembly had voted almost unanimously for Prohibition.
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- 8/15/2008 - Texas' old alcohol laws need to change
Fort Worth recently experienced the largest petition drive in the city's history. The number of signatures submitted to the city secretary dwarfed by more than four times the 16,000 people who signed a 2002 petition regarding whether the city should build a convention center hotel.
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- 7/27/2008 - Time for Indiana to repeal its blue laws
When I moved to southern Indiana nearly nine years ago, it was on a Sunday. Why not, I figured. When I got everything in and settled, I was more than ready to crack open a six-pack. Imagine my surprise when informed I would have to meander across the river to Louisville to buy anything. They had blue laws in Indiana? I wish someone had told me that, I would have moved down the day before. Don't get me started on the whole concept of cold beer costing more than warm beer.
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- 7/27/2008 - California and the Repeal of Prohibition
Seventy-five years ago this month, California ratified the 21st Amendment that repealed national prohibition, and it did so with a resounding three-to-one majority.
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- 7/22/2008 - Leave Prohibition behind; allow Sunday liquor sales
On July 11, 1933, Connecticut ratified the 21st Amendment, leading to the repeal of Prohibition. In the early part of the 20th century, the Yankee population increasingly advocated prohibition of alcohol as a way to reduce the crime, poverty and vice it considered associated with the flood of southern European and eastern European immigrants entering the state.
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- 7/11/2008 - Iowa, prohibition: A toxic brew
An historic event occurred 75 years ago on July 10, 1933. On that day, Iowa ratified the Twenty-First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On Dec. 5 of the same year, after it had been ratified by the required 36 states, National Prohibition was repealed.
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- 7/11/2008 - On this day in 1933, state's voters said Prohibition was a flop
Seventy-five years ago today, New Hampshire ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 17 minutes, repealing the prohibition of alcoholic liquors. After the necessary three-quarters of the states had ratified the amendment on Dec. 5, 1933, repeal was achieved.
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- 7/1/2008 - Recalling New York's rejection of Prohibition
Seventy-five years ago on June 27, 1933, New York state ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to end national prohibition. By December 1933, the necessary number of states followed New York to repeal the amendment.
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- 6/30/2008 - Repeal ban on the sale of alcohol on Sundays
When it was first imposed in 1920, many Hoosiers expected that Prohibition would lower crime, improve health, decrease accidents, lead to prosperity, protect young people and raise public morals. Celebrations were held across the state, and famous evangelist Billy Sunday visited, preaching that Prohibition would save many people from hell.
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- 6/28/2008 - State suffered Prohibition's consequences
Seventy-five years ago, on June 26, 1933, Indiana ratified the 21st Amendment that repealed national Prohibition.
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- 6/26/2008 - Toasting the repeal
Seventy-five years ago this week, on June 26, 1933, Indiana ratified the 21st Amendment that repealed National Prohibition.
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- 5/25/2008 - Good Intention Turns to Toxic Brew
Wyoming ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 75 years ago on May 25, 1933. Other states followed and on Dec. 5 of that year, national repeal was achieved.
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- 5/4/08 - Legalizing Hard Booze Didn't Let It Flow Freely
The formal ending of Prohibition on Dec. 5, 1933, didn't cause nearly the level of revelry that legalizing 3.2 percent beer in the Bay Area had done eight months earlier. The reason was that Californians still couldn't buy hard liquor by the drink. Licensed establishments could legally serve wine and beer by the glass, but not distilled spirits.
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- 4/29/2008 - Remnants Of Prohibition Found In Michigan's Liquor Pricing
Seventy-five years ago, on April 10, 1933, Michigan became the first state to ratify the 21st Amendment to repeal Prohibition.
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- 4/16/2008 - Colorado OKs Sunday liquor sales
Colorado residents will soon be able to buy liquor legally on Sundays. Gov. Bill Ritter signed legislation Monday that reversed a 75-year-old law banning Sunday sales, The Rocky Mountain News reported. The bill takes effect July 1.
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- 4/16/2008 - Blue Sunday
Liquor sales ban is dated. Starting July 1, the people of Colorado will be able to shop in liquor stores on Sundays. On Monday, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed legislation repealing the state's so-called blue law, which prohibited Sunday liquor store sales. That means Oklahoma is one of only 15 states clinging to anachronistic blue laws.
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- 4/15/2008 - Colorado Ends Sunday Liquor Sales Ban
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today announced support for repealing the state’s remaining Blue Law restrictions on Sunday sales. This week, Colorado will become the 35th state to allow liquor sales on Sundays.
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- 4/12/2008 - Buying booze on Sundays okayed
DENVER (KWGN) - Sunday liquor sales will become law Monday. Colorado Governor Bill Ritter will sign a bill that will add an extra day for liquor retailers to stay open.
The new law won't go into effect until July 1st. Places like Ken Caryl Village Wine and Spirits will now be able to sell their liquor to customers every day of the week. "For the customers they can come in here and purchase anything they want not just beer they were limited to before," said store owner Greg Lisano.
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- 4/11/2008 - Blue law will fade to black
Gov. Bill Ritter has pledged to sign a bill allowing Sunday liquor sales - a move that prompted a threat of a ballot initiative from retailers who stand to lose money.
Ritter's office said Thursday that he would sign the bill Monday morning.
The bill, which would take effect in July, would allow liquor stores to open on Sundays. Liquor retailers cheered the move, but convenience stores and grocers — which, with only a few exceptions, are limited to selling 3.2 percent-alcohol beer - said it will make the existing unfair system even more lopsided.
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- 4/10/2008 - Ritter to sign Sunday liquor sales bill
Seventy-five years after the repeal of Prohibition, Colorado is set to repeal a Prohibition-era "blue law" that banned Sunday sales of liquor.
Gov. Bill Ritter has scheduled a signing ceremony Monday for a bill that allows liquor stores to open on Sunday, said Wil Alston, a spokesman for the governor.
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