Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that alcohol is less a stimulant than a releaser of the inhibitions was bemoaned last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing by that grand old Victorian snorter, Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon...
Bank in Constantinople (1889-97) to Britain's first ambassador in Berlin after the War (1920-26), the noble lord knows alcohol of most nationalities. "Alcohol does badly what it sets out to do," said he last week. "It is not a true stimulant. The result it brings is not exempt from disagreeable and injurious reaction. Therefore I continue to believe in the eventual concoction of some preferable substitute." Asked to be more specific Viscount D'Abernon said, with the air of a man who dreams dreams and sees visions: "A vast fortune would reward the discoverer...
...diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat and salt water, filtered the concoction. This macerated residue he injected under the patient's skin. Quickly she recovered...
More newsworthy than what Mr. McCampbell did was what Major Campbell last week said. The Treasury Department, still his employer, ordered him to Boston as Alcohol Permit Inspector. He refused to go, resigned from the service, issued a bristling statement: "I have . . . revoked . . . many permits with political backing and have thus trod on many political toes. . . . There are certain brewery permits, whiskey permits and alcohol permits that local politicians and certain Administration officials in Washington feel must be restored in order to secure necessary support for the Republican ticket in New York this fall. With me in charge of permits...
...conclusion of letting Wet states stay Wet. Although the Justice Department shied away from formulating any specific division of enforcement responsibilities, it apparently meant to confine its activities to interstate liquor shipments and large illicit plants, leaving states to deal with petty leggers and the Treasury to cope with alcohol diversion (under Commissioner Doran) and smuggling (under the Coast Guard and Customs service...