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Monday, November 23, 2009

President Harding signed "anti-beer bill"

On November 23, 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Willis-Campbell Act, popularly termed the "anti-beer bill", prohibiting doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.



Read David Kyvig, America Sobers Up (chapter 2 of Repealing National Prohibition, 1979).



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