85 years ago: Prohibition ends
It was 85 years ago this week that the era of Prohibition, referred to by President Herbert Hoover as “the Noble Experiment,” came to an end. On Dec. 5, 1933, the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which made the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages illegal in the U.S., became official in the form of the 21st Amendment. In January 1920, the long push of the “Dry” movement, supported by groups such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Uni