...Administration II Title III Series KF39I9 K98 1986 344 73'054I 86-16306 ISBN 0-911333-48-7 347 304541 , here is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment...Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail, " a sponsor gloated after the amendment designed to prevent the use of alcoholic beverages had been...

...Early in Prohibition, a Texas senator declared that "there is as much chance of repealing the 1 8th Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to...Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." Only when Pierre du Pont, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and other pillars of conservative wealth converted...

...37 There is as much of a chance of repealing the eighteenth amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. This country is for temperance and prohibition and it is going to continue to elect members of Congress...

...Consequently, one of the amendment's authors, Texas senator Morris Sheppard, had reason for boasting: "There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth...Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." 3 Even as thirsty an observer as President Warren Harding concluded that the amendment would never...

...overturned so unlikely that he scoffed, incorrectly as it turned out but with considerable justification, "There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth...planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail."3 The demands of the amending process certainly explain why there have been relatively few constitutional...

...disagreed with Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas when he said: There is as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to...Mars with the Washington monument tied to its tail.' Neither would they have disagreed with Clarence Darrow, the famous lawyer, when he said that talk about...

...have the word of Morris Sheppard, father of the Eighteenth Amendment, to verify it. Said he, "There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." Morris Sheppard, however,...

...fact that, by putting up a still on his property, he had already enacted his own, personal repeal, "as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet...Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." A year and a half after Prohibition began, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution followed it...

...early 20th century. As one senator put it in 1930, "There is as much chance of repealing [Prohibition] as there is for a humming-bird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail."111 Yet just a few years later, America's ill-fated experiment in alcohol criminalization was...

...Morris Sheppard of Texas, a politician instrumental in the drafting of the Volstead Act, boasted that "there is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth...Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail" (Asbury The Great Illusion 316). Although this comment seems laughable today, Sheppard's opinion, generally...