Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge's signing the Jones Act-hoping it was signed at least one minute after their arrests-but Attorney-General Mitchell announced that anyone caught that day would be tried under the Jones Act. 5) The bootleggers of Washington, D.C., frightened or greedy, increased the price of alcohol from...
James Cannon Jr., many years ago, pinned upon his mother's breast her only jewel (the white emblem of Prohibition) and laid her to rest and dedicated his life to her battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done...
...especially for Canadian border; part for doubling or trebling present field force, increasing salaries to induce higher type men to apply for this responsible and hazardous work; part for more thorough, stringent surveillance of breweries and distilleries to prevent illegal distribution of high-powered beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals and to society of use of intoxicants, also the physical, economic, personal and social benefits of abstinence and prohibition, appealing to patriotic citizenship to abandon and discourage self-indulgent...
...Penney's son James Cash Penney Jr. approves tobacco, of alcohol...
...Drink no alcohol at all. Use strychnine or coffee for stimulants. Cutting the wound and trying to suck out the venom is, he believes, useless...