Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some uses "without political effect" to which Anti-Saloon moneys are put: publishing "a flood of pamphlets, leaflets, books and articles on the scientific, economic, sociological, hygienic and other phases of the alcohol problem"; publishing the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem; issuing press releases; "furnishing the religious press (which reaches the great bulk of our supporters) with articles intended to answer wet propaganda"; publishing The American Issue (national monthly...
...business of manufacturing alcohol, liquor and beer will go out of the hands of law-abiding members of the community, and will be transferred to the quasi-criminal class. In the communities where the majority will not sympathize with a Federal law's restrictions large numbers of Federal officers will be needed for its enforcement. The central Government now has very wide war powers. When peace comes these must end, if the republic is to be preserved...
More and more turbulent grew Philadelphia's liquor ring investigation (TIME, Sept. 17). The city's bootleggers, finding the local distilling plants padlocked were not downhearted. They ordered shipments of alcohol from Porto Rico via New York. These goods were seized, however...
...like a giant spider in the middle of a great web with eyes in front and behind. A man who sees everything, knows everything and controls everything in the underworld," said Mr. Monaghan, but did not name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper of its own 13,000 saloons and speakeasies, Philadelphia appeared as a spigot from which alcohol poured out to all parts of the country with a source of supply...
...English] are ... a degenerate race suffering from disturbed nerve centres? We have come to realize that tea-drinking is definitely refreshing, exhilarating and harmless. . . . Alcohol is the most expensive drink in America today and tea the cheapest. .' . . The stimulating effects . . . will go a long way toward staying the taste for alcohol...