Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Causes for congestion were sought. The President explained from data supplied him: "The increased number of prisoners is due to the general increase in crime, the largest number of our prisoners being violators of the narcotics act. They comprise about 33% of the inmates. . . . Prohibition contributes about...
Other major groups of U. S. prisoners were violators of the Interstate Motor Vehicle Theft Act, the Postal Laws, the Counterfeiting Act, the Mann Act (white slavers...
Herbert Brown, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, explained that in 1926 out of 5,120 convictions under the drug act, 1,540 persons went to jail whereas out of 37,018 convictions under the Volstead Act, only 765 men received jail sentences. Plain is the picture of what would have happened had 'leggers been sentenced to prison in the same proportion as violators of other U. S. laws...
...role of the bootlegger stood outside the closed rooming house door and said: "You can go to hell." This and his subsequent remarks were murmurous realities. The rest was mere melodramatic pressure. Peggy Shannon, an advertised titian contest winner from Pine Bluff, Ark., flirted gaily through the first act but disappeared before the grim days...
...characters belong to a type familiar to cinema-seers since 1910. A girl from one of those Graustarkian Balkan kingdoms changes the destinies of the boys from the jazz orchestra who find her penniless in a U. S. city. Only good shots: the orchestral quartet putting on its act...