Prohibition gets a lot of attention in popular history, but at the time the U.S. faced many serious problems and threats, not least the Great Depression. Would someone neither a temperance advocate nor a bootlegger have noticed the change very much? In what ways? How did the repeal compare in coverage/magnitude to other events of the day?
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