Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory is the majority secured by Mr. Pinchot in Pennsylvania. But here even the candidate who is an ardent dry attributes his victory to a desire for clean government rather than enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment. Nearly every reputable indication of public feeling has been against the anti-alcohol laws. It does not take an interpreter to read the writing that is becoming more and more distinct on the American political wall. Whether or not it is here to stay, Prohibition is certainly the biggest political issue in this country today and the good old practice of avoiding the issue...
...Passed a bill to amend the Pure Food and Drug Act by requiring canned foods below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled, again rejecting theTydings amendment to prohibit insertion of deadly poi- sons in industrial alcohol. ¶ Passed a bill to establish a division of (criminal) identification & information in the Department of Justice. ¶ Passed a bill to create a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. ¶ Adopted a joint resolution making July 5 (Saturday) a legal bank holiday in the District of Columbia for this year only. ¶ Passed a bill amending the Federal Farm Loan...
...part of the population which finds its relaxation in other ways would be greatly affected. With working hours made shorter and less wearing, and sports, radio and automobiles to provide harmless occupations for leisure time, there is small reason to suppose that any great increase in the consumption of alcohol would follow such a step...
...entubed beer analyzed at less than ½% of 1% alcohol. There was no legal case. Explained Agent Porter: "I never would have believed it. ... The saloonkeepers spray the tops of kegs of nearbeer with alcohol. That gives the taste and smell of alcoholic beer...
Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas: "If we spent 10% of the money we have expended for enforcement of the Volstead Act upon [advertising] the duty of obeying the law, and the daily effect of alcohol, we would almost have cured the anti-Volstead people. . . . There is some doubt as to whether the London Treaty will go over . . . because none of us has been compelled to read it. Turn it over to a modern advertising agency and we will not be able to dodge...