"Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. It must be worked out constructively." President-elect Herbert Hoover (1928) "The Eighteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution… is hereby repealed." Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States(1933) The Prohibition, despite its good intentions, was wholly impractical. Rather than create a "dry America", a moral environment free of liquor, the ban on alcohol led to illegal …
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