Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same test, graded impartially. But personal qualifications are also weighed, and that ushers the political equation into the civil service. On the theory that most men selected as Prohibition agents, and transferred last year from the Department of Justice's Prohibition Bureau to the Treasury's Alcohol Tax Unit, were Republicans, Tennessee's wrinkle-faced old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar at the last session of Congress adroitly tacked a rider on the Emergency Appropriation Act. It stipulated that the 1,195 investigators and special investigators (salaries: $2,600 and $2,900) transferred to the Alcohol Tax Unit...
Nearly 75% of all those taking this examination failed. And of the incumbents competing for their old jobs, 856 out of the 1,195 flunked. By law they were automatically dropped from the Alcohol Tax Unit...
...Mexico's lands are rather poor. . . . The country's sparsity of population is the chief obstacle in its progress. . . . Mexico is constantly threatened by diseases characteristically tropical. . . . The National Revolutionary Party believes that athletic training and sports are . . . an ideal manner of combatting vices, especially that of alcohol. . . . Delinquency offers a singular problem in the Republic . . . particularly cases of crimes committed by abandoned children-already perverted or on the point of being...
Professor Bancroft's thesis is that the thread-like nerve ends clot when exhausted by wakefulness or worry or poisoned by sedatives, hypnotics, narcotics, anesthetics or alcohol. He has indeed seen through microscopes drugged nerve ends turn dull, cloud and congeal like poached eggs. His contention is that sodium rhodanate dissolves the clots at the nerve ends, restores them to their natural consistency...
Most distinguished witness for the prosecution was Dr. Chaim Weizmann, goateed chemist whose Wartime gift to Britain of a process for speeding production of alcohol gained Balfour's promise of a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. Onetime President of the World Zionist Federation, Dr. Weizmann is a Jew who might well be slated to be the Uncrowned King of the Jews if their Elders were really planning a world kingdom. But Nazi Fischer did not suggest that possibility. Instead he bombarded Jew Weizmann with questions about the first Zionist Congress of 1897, at which Sergei Nilus declared the Protocols...