10 seconds sound clip from the The Roaring Twenties (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:27:40 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- First to feel the effects of the economic disaster which sweeps the country are the nightclubs, the speakeasies, and the bootleggers who serve them.
- With the falling off of profits in the illegal liquor industry, the mobsters have difficulty in paying protection.
- And the number of raids, arrests and convictions double and quadruple.
- Then in the depth of the economic despair that has gripped the country...
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president partially on the basis of his promise to end Prohibition.
- In New York City, thousands of jubilant citizens march in a great beer parade and shortly, 3.2 beer becomes legal.
- Finally comes the national referendum on repeal.
- Tired of years of violence, corruption, and loss of personal liberty, Americans go to the polls and overwhelmingly rout the dry forces.
- After 13 years, Prohibition is dead leaving in its wake a criminal element used to wealth and power...
- But unable, for the most part, to cope with the new determination by an aroused public that law and order should once more reign.
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