CONGRESSIONAL SERIAL SET
Social Conditions
Exhibit for the University of Michigan Graduate Library, December 2005

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Prohibition of alcohol, instituted by the 18th Amendment (1920) was repealed by the 21st Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933. A report on modification of the National Prohibition Act and establishment of liquor taxes appears in Document 9647 (72nd Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Report 1105).

The Dillingham Commission, 1907-1910, was authorized by Congress to fully examination immigration to the United States. Its 41 volume report includes a Dictionary of Races and Peoples, a Statistical Review of Immigration, 1819-1910, immigrants in cities and specific industries, even the Importation and Harboring of Women for Immoral Purposes. It was published as Document 5663-5684/3 and 5865-5881.
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