THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT.
MR ALFRED SLOAN FAVOURS
REPEAL
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—Br ILICTKIO TELEGEAPH— COPiaXOHT.) (Received Juno 12th, 6.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 11. Mr Alfred Sloan, president of the General Motors Corporation, and one of the country's leading industrialists, has announced his conversion to the belief that the best road to temperance lies in tho repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Mr Sloan often cited with Mr Henry Ford as an outstanding business leader who felt that the country's industrial efficiency had been increased by Prohibition, to-day declared that lawlessness developed as a result of Prohibition. _He said: It created a general condition far more damaging to tho present or future stability of the country than any possible benefits that would otherwise be enjoyed.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20571, 13 June 1932, Page 9
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