Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second does not pursue any one subject for any length of time, but flits about from Boccaccio to George Moore, takes all the "appreciation" courses, and possibly athletics. The third has no interest in the intellectual life proper, being too much occupied with the pleasure of clothes, tobacco, alcohol, the atres, clubs, and so on. I believe that all these types exist at Harvard, although it must be remembered that strict classification is specious and that hybrids also are present...
...press is to be credenced, does the University of Wisconsin need an administrator. Judge Ole Stolen, magistrate of Madison, Wis., where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed to be female, but smelling dismally of alcohol, were carried in blankets from fraternity houses. "Liquor and women have become a craze." Crime increases; "the County jail would be filled twice a week if every offender were sent up." University officials denied that such revels ever occurred except possibly in vacation periods but agreed with Judge Stolen that...
Then, during the War, 2.75% alcoholic content was set as the limit on legal beverages. The revenue agents still collected the tax and undertook to punish those who disregarded the limit. A little later, the legal limit was reduced to .5%. The Bureau of Internal Revenue still undertook the business of enforcement. There was no longer any revenue to be derived from a tax on alcoholic beverages, but the Bureau handled the taxes and regulations on alcohol for industrial uses. A special unit was then set up by the Bureau to undertake the increased labor of enforcing the .5% restriction...
...Unit as a branch of the Treasury Department independent of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This is in accordance with the announced belief of the League that Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair has hampered the work of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Moreover, the bill would remove the control of industrial alcohol from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the Prohibition Unit. The League claims that "6,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol was used last year to supply the illicit trade. Reduced to 40% whiskey, this provided 240,000,000 half pints of bootleg." The bill would also place the Prohibition...
...drug trade and the users of industrial alcohol are most earnestly opposed to the measure. They assert that the present restrictions on the use of alcohol are very severe, but that, under the Prohibition Unit, conditions would be worse; that they would be placed at the mercy of a group of agents not gifted with an understanding of their legitimate business needs?sleuths, in fact, whose sole training has been to regard every user of alcohol as a criminal...