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The Beer-Wine Revenue Act - March 22, 1933

80 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Beer–Wine Revenue Act into law on March 22, 1933.  This law amended the Volstead Act and permitted the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol content of less than 3.2% by volume.   The act represented the first relaxation of the prohibition laws since 1918 and was followed up at the end of the year with the passage of the 21st Amendment repealing prohibition.  Repeal of prohibition laws was a key plank in the Democratic platform during the 1932 Presidential election as reflected in Clifford Berryman’s cartoon.

(Admittedly Marine Corporal R.L. Quisenberry and the New Ulm German singers club were likely not contemporaries of FDR’s decision, but we suspect they would have approved.)
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