Oklahoma Beer Act of 1933

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Oklahoma Beer Act of 1933
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Long titleAn Act to legalize the manufacture, sale, or possession of 3.2 per centum beer in the State of Oklahoma when and if the same is legalized by a majority vote of the people of Oklahoma or by act of the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma.
NicknamesOklahoma Beer Permit Act
Enacted bythe 73rd United States Congress
EffectiveJune 16, 1933
Citations
Public lawPub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 73–82
Statutes at Large48 Stat. 311, Chapter CV
Codification
Titles amended27 U.S.C.: Intoxicating Liquors
U.S.C. sections created27 U.S.C. ch. 2A § 64p
Legislative history

Oklahoma Beer Act of 1933 is a United States public law legalizing the manufacture, possession, and sale of low-point beer in the State of Oklahoma. The Act of Congress cites the federal statute is binding with the cast of legal votes by the State of Oklahoma constituents or legislative action by the Oklahoma Legislature.

Abolishment of Prohibition Era[edit]

The Chapter 105 article found in volume forty-eight of the Statutes at Large was enacted into law with the Blaine Act and Cullen-Harrison Act. The beer taxation laws provided tax revenue for the relief of the 1930s financial crisis charged by the Roosevelt Administration's fiscal policy of the United States.[1]

The 72nd United States Congress proposed the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution as endorsed by John Nance Garner and Charles Curtis on February 20, 1933.[2] The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Volstead Act was repealed upon ratifying the twenty-first constitutional law abolishing Prohibition in the United States on December 5, 1933.[3]

On August 27, 1935, the Beer, Ale, Porter, and Similar Fermented Liquor codified law sections were officially repealed with the enactment of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act of 1935.[4][5]

Oklahoma Prohibition Law of 1959[edit]

Beginning on November 10, 1958, the Oklahoma electoral precincts endorsed a referendum known as the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverages Initiative Petition No. 264.[6] The ballot appeal was subject for confirmation and consideration by the Governor of Oklahoma Raymond Gary prior to departing the Oklahoma Governor's office on January 12, 1959.

After approval by Oklahoma Governor Howard Edmondson and 27th Oklahoma Legislature on March 3, 1959, the state of Oklahoma convened a state-wide election regarding the wholesale and retail sales of an alcoholic drink prohibiting Oklahoma as an alcoholic beverage control state.[7] On April 7, 1959, Oklahoma registered 711,225 cast votes repealing the Oklahoma alcohol control and prohibition law. The Oklahoma constituents decisively defeated the alcohol law by a vote of 396,845 to 314,380.[8]

The Oklahoma election approved the distributive sales of packaged containers as original unopened alcoholic beverages merchandised by beer stores and liquor stores. The Oklahoma state statute created the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board ministering the alcohol beverage regulations and open container laws of Oklahoma.[9]

Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and Oklahoma Court Cases[edit]

Associated Legal Proceedings & Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Board

In Popular Culture[edit]

During the early 1920s, American Authors Guild recognized the flamboyant and promiscuous lifestyles of the flapper's era as the Jazz Age produced the musical and social harmony of the Roaring Twenties. American literary writers, as Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein ― 27 rue de Fleurus ― defined the early twentieth century generational and social advocates as the Lost Generation of the temperance movement.

◇ Flappers and Philosophers (1920) ◇ The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
◇ Main Street (1920) ◇ Many Marriages (1923)
◇ This Side of Paradise (1920) ◇ Dark Laughter (1925)
◇ Babbitt (1922) ◇ The Great Gatsby (1925)

By the early 1930s, the Cinema of the United States vigilantly cultivated the American charm for the dissolute social norms and the cunning Speakeasy subculture of the alcohol prohibition era.

☆ The Struggle (1931) ☆ Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
☆ The Wet Parade (1932) ☆ Prohibition (2011)
☆ Song of the Eagle (1933) ☆ Lawless (2012)
☆ What! No Beer? (1933) ☆ The Great Gatsby (Film Adaptations)
☆ The Roaring Twenties (1939) ☆ The Great Gatsby (2013)

See also[edit]

Alcohol laws of Oklahoma
Alcohol packaging warning messages
Anti-Saloon League
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Beer chemistry
Beer in the United States
Bottled in bond
Carrie Nation
Dry county
Dry state
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Local option
National Beer Day (United States)
New Deal
Repeal of Prohibition in the United States
United States Brewers' Association
Wickersham Commission

References[edit]

  1. ^ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (March 13, 1933). "The First Step Toward the Repeal of the Volstead Act - March 13, 1933". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 66–67.
  2. ^ "S. J. Res. 211 Proposing Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution". The National Archives Catalog. United States National Archives. February 20, 1933.
  3. ^ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (December 5, 1933). "Proclamation 2065: The President Proclaims the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment - December 5, 1933". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 510–514.
  4. ^ 74th United States Congress (August 27, 1935). "Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act of 1935 ~ P.L. 74-347" (PDF). 49 Stat. 872, Chapter 740 ~ Senate Bill 3336. United States Printing Office.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "S. 3336 ~ Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act of 1935" (PDF). 74th Congress Senate Congressional Record - Vol. 79, Part 13. Congress.gov. August 26, 1935. p. 14752.
  6. ^ "Oklahoma State Question No. 385" [Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverages Initiative Petition No. 264] (PDF). Oklahoma Secretary of State. State of Oklahoma. November 10, 1958.
  7. ^ "Oklahoma State Question No. 387" [Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverages County Option Amendment] (PDF). Oklahoma Secretary of State. State of Oklahoma. March 3, 1959.
  8. ^ Everett, Dianna. "Liquor Control Act of 1959". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
  9. ^ "Oklahoma State Question No. 386" [Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Amendment] (PDF). Oklahoma Secretary of State. State of Oklahoma. April 21, 1959.

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Historical Video Archives[edit]

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