CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Nov. 12, 1930

* Prohibition is a failure ?
* re. Eighteenth Amendment
* Nice headline for display

The front page has a banner headline: "SIFT DRY LAW CHANGE TODAY" with subheads. (see images)
When it comes to gangsters, organized crime, and the nefarious activities born out of the Prohibition and Great Depression eras, no city is more in the forefront of our minds than Chicago - and what better newspaper can be found than the Chicago Tribune, self-proclaimed to be "The World's Greatest Newspaper".
Complete with all 40 pages, rag edition in very nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.

Background: The Prohibition findings of the Wickersham Commission are historically notable for delivering the most damning empirical critique of the Eighteenth Amendment ever produced by the federal government, while simultaneously presenting an exceedingly rare political paradox that exposed the collapse of national dry policies. Based on extensive field investigations conducted through late 1930, the commission's January 1931 report meticulously documented how Prohibition had generated rampant political corruption, empowered violent organized crime syndicates, and fostered widespread public cynicism toward law enforcement. However, what makes the document uniquely rare in American legislative history is its absurd internal self-contradiction—dubbed the "Wickersham Paradox"—wherein all eleven commissioners provided overwhelming evidence that enforcing Prohibition was functionally impossible, yet the official collective recommendation advised against repeal due to political pressure from the Hoover administration, even as individual members attached written dissents urging immediate modification. By officially proving that Prohibition was an irredeemable failure while highlighting the government's refusal to act on its own data, this singular report stripped the temperance movement of its political credibility and served as the primary catalyst for the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933.