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“Prohibition,” “Carol Lombard dies,” and “Curt Flood fights free agency,” - This Day in History – Jan 16th
"Prohibition," "Carol Lombard dies," and "Curt Flood fights free agency," - This Day in History – Jan 16th
Prohibition is approved with the 18th Amendment
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Back in 1919, the Prohibition was established with the 19th Amendment as a way to prevent Americans from being under the influence of the adverse effects of alcohol.
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History.com, stated that, “Prohibition took effect in January 1919. Nine months later, Congress passed the Volstead Act, or National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. The Volstead Act provided for the enforcement of prohibition, including the creation of a special unit of the Treasury Department. Despite a vigorous effort by law-enforcement agencies, the Volstead Act failed to prevent the large-scale distribution of alcoholic beverages, and organized crime flourished in America. In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified, repealing prohibition.”
A television show on HBO called, “Boardwalk Empire,” has been created to give an insight of the prohibition era in the area of Atlantic City.
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Hollywood Legend, Carol Lombard dies in plane crash
Back in 1942, comedic actress Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash along with her mother, 15 young Army pilots and publicity agent Otto Winkler. Ms. Lombard, who was 33 at the time of her death, had starred in comedies such as. “No Man of Her Own,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “My Man Godfrey,” and “Nothing Sacred.”
Ms. Lombard was married twice; her first husband was William Powell and Clark Gable (her husband until her death).
Clark Gable was unable to handle the death of his wife, Carole of three years. According to history.com, “Hysterical with grief and adrift in the empty house he had shared with Lombard, Gable drank heavily and struggled to complete his work on Somewhere I’ll Find You. He was comforted by worried friends, including the actress Joan Crawford. That August, Gable decided to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces. He spent most of the war in the United Kingdom, and flew several combat missions (including one to Germany), earning several decorations for his efforts. He would remarry twice more, but when he died in 1960 Gable was interred at Forest Lawn, next to Lombard.”
Back in 1970, baseball players would be traded to other teams with no say from the player, however, Curt Flood, the Golden-Glove center fielder from the St. Louis Cardinals protested his trade to the Philadelphia Phillies and thus started the policy of free agency.
According to history.com, “Flood was not the first player to challenge the reserve clause, but he was certainly the most prominent, and stood to lose the most. In his 12 seasons with the Cardinals, he batted an average of .293, and he was paid $90,000 in salary for the 1969 season. He was also only 31 years old, at the peak of his career. After a U.S. district court judge rejected Flood’s claim in August 1970, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite the support of such great players as Jackie Robinson, Flood suffered when no active players agreed to testify on his behalf, and the court ruled against him in a 5-3 decision in 1972.
By that time, Flood’s career was over. His lost battle turned into an eventual win for the players, however. Major League Baseball agreed to federal arbitration of players’ salary demands in 1973, and in 1975 an arbitrator effectively threw out the reserve clause, paving the way for free agency in baseball and all professional sports.”
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