Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic instructor at Harvard 30 years ago, Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, more recently adviser to the Bank of England; noted youngish Dean Acheson, retiring Undersecretary of the Treasury, tall, lean and dark; noted a couple of assistant secretaries, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, the Directress of the Mint, the Chief of the Secret Service, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; noted, also, standing in the background but apart from Dr. Sprague, two other economists, Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale, unofficial financial adviser to the Administration, and the man who 20 years...
Every year there are in the College about a hundred and fifty students crouched over dog-fish and cats in the laboratories of Zoology three; approximately the same number wallow in the odors of other and alcohol wafted about the laboratory of Chemistry 2a. A smaller, but still considerable group spends its afternoons fulfilling the requirements of Zoology 4 and 5, and of Chemistry 3a and 33. These students estimate the time put in on their laboratory work variously; taking into consideration all the available facts, it is not too much to say that the man of average mentality will...
Said Warden Alson: "A barrel of corn mash, charged with alcohol, is left overnight near a sand bar or a sluice where wild ducks are known to feed. Early the next morning the hunters return. There are the ducks, either sleeping off a hangover or staggering around making silly quacking sounds. The alcohol leaves the ducks incapable of flying or swimming, and they are caught easily by hand. Some die of acute alcoholism...
Other objections to the sale of alcohol presented by the Square merchants included a marked dislike of converting their places of business into liquor dispensaries, and the impossibility of handling the equipment necessary for operating such a tavern. The owners of one shop avowed too great an affection for Harvard boys to allow them to procure hard liquor in their tavern, thereby harming them. "I'd sooner shoof you than sell you any liquor," the manager said she had remarked to one student, adding that his replay had been, "Sell me the drink first and then shoot...
...world conferences of both physicians and scientists, alcohol has been pronounced not a stimulant but a poison, and rightfully belongs with strychnine and the rest. Therefore advertising such a poison as a drink for human beings, in my opinion, is not only contrary to the letter of the law, but most of all, to the spirit...