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The Republican National Convention was filled with an air of despair. In light of the Depression, defeat in November seemed almost certain. The delegates focused attention away from the troubled economy with a major debate on the prohibition of alcoholic beverages, which had been instituted in 1919 with the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. After much debate, the delegates voted for a vaguely worded resolution to "allow states to deal with the problem [of prohibition] as their citizens may determine." The 1932 elections were the last in which Prohibition was an issue, because in December 1933 the Twenty-first Amendment to the U. S. Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. The Republican Party platform called for rugged individualism, asserting that "The people themselves, by their own courage, their own patient and resolute effort. . . can and will work out the cure" to the Depression. Convention speakers L...
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