16 Jan 06 - 08:29 AM (#1649464) Subject: happy? – Jan 16 (Prohibition) From: Abby Sale The 18th Amendment, Prohibition, was ratified 1/16/1919 {It was also ratified 1/29/1919}. It went into effect 1/2/1920 and was finally repealed 1933
Good song. Our local President Barry Brogan is the only live person I've heard sing it, though. ALSO: I'm sure all are familiar with the famed singer/songwriter Wladyslaw Polak. In July 1929 he sang of the baptism party for his child..
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16 Jan 06 - 10:14 AM (#1649528) Subject: RE: happy? – Jan 16 (Prohibition) From: Paul Burke And it inspired Naftule Brandwein's marvellous Vi Bist du Gevezn for prohibisn |
16 Jan 06 - 10:25 AM (#1649539) Subject: RE: happy? – Jan 16 (Prohibition) From: katlaughing My maternal grandmother was a member of the Women's Temperance Union. There were whispered stories of how she may have brought my granddad to "sobriety." I can't put my hands on it, this moment, but I have a handwritten piece by here, several pages long with illustrations about drinking being an "eight-armed" octupus of temptation, etc. It is really something. I'll see if I can find it, later, today, and share some of it. Thanks, Abby, kat |