It was a pretty accurate commentary long after Rogers' 1935 death, but it changed in 1959 when Oklahomans voted overwhelmingly to repeal prohibition. Oklahoma had been officially dry since ...

Not only did Anthony see the end of Prohibition coming, he also sensed the opportunity that it would provide for people who were ready to sell alcohol legally. Anthony applied for a license to ...

A deadly riot in Portland in 1855 lead to the law's repeal. Now, Prohibition was being implemented on a national scale, and being enshrined in the Constitution no less. What followed was a litany ...

Pennsylvania, for example, has about 675 that enforce some sort of restriction. The push to repeal Prohibition-era laws comes as recent successful legislative efforts passed, including the ...

Founded shortly after the repeal of Prohibition, Orlando-based ABC Fine Wine & Spirits is the largest liquor store chain in the Sunshine State. With stores stretching from the Panhandle to Miami, ABC ...

December 5 — that’s Tuesday — is Repeal Day, marking the 90th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, the 16-year nationwide ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages. It’s a quirk of history ...

The Danville Town Council is set to vote this week on repealing a decades-old ordinance prohibiting cruising in the downtown area in order to align with changes in state law preventing regulation or ...

Booze would finally flow freely in six upstate towns that never repealed Prohibition-era rules banning the sale of alcohol, under a new bill that some locals say is hard to swallow. The proposed ...

Excerpts : “The great majority of the convention were for naked Repeal. . . . Something like ... Hoover would say something ambiguous about Prohibition in the campaign which would open the ...

At the top of the list the is most important issue: the repeal of Prohibition by passage of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ending Prohibition in 1933. Few realized the chaos that ...