December 5, 1933: Prohibition Ends

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🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In the U.S., the selling and consumption of alcohol became legal after states ratified the 21st Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Sunday, December 5th, 2021.
0:07.0	On this day in 1933, Prohibition ended, making it legal to once again buy and sell alcohol in the United States.
0:24.2	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:28.5	Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from them 19th.
0:30.5	Tea break, lunch break.
0:32.3	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:35.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombole, right?
0:37.9	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,
0:39.3	or time to visit your nan time.
0:41.6	Go on, play some other time.
0:43.5	Put your phone down.
0:44.7	Tombola.
0:45.6	Open for fun.
0:47.3	Terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org.
0:53.9	Welcome to today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.
0:58.7	Due to the graphic nature of this crime, listener discretion is advised.
1:02.8	This episode includes references to domestic violence that some people may find offensive.
1:07.9	Today, we're tracing America's ban on liquor from its enactment up until its repeal.
1:14.6	Now let's go back to Washington, D.C. on December 5, 1933.
1:23.7	Congress was in the middle of discussing a highly contentious amendment to the Constitution.
1:32.6	The prohibition of alcohol had been a law for almost 13 years, but when economic stagnation
1:39.7	and the Great Depression loomed over the United States, the measure's popularity fell out of favor.
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