Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cradle & All. In Philadelphia, police found nine five-gallon cans of untaxed alcohol in the apartment of a man who protested: "I'm just baby sitting...
...point of an M1 carbine in 1944. He was a P.W., an owlish-looking Wehrmacht lieutenant captured at Cherbourg, and he was bound for the stockade at Camp Como, Miss. He didn't mind much. "It was like a monastery," he recalls, "an ideal place for study. No alcohol, no girls, no outside diversions...
Died. Ella Alexander Boole, 93, retired world president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, defeated candidate for Congress on the 1920 Prohibition "Send a Mother to the Senate" ticket; of a stroke; in Brooklyn. With the battle cry, "Tremble, King Alcohol! We Shall Grow Up!", Ohio-born Ella Boole, widow of a Methodist minister, helped pressure Congress into passing the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment...
Judge Lawrence G. Brooks '02 of Malden, said that "definitions of the amount of alcohol in human blood streams would protect many falsely accused persons suffering from illness instead of intoxication...
Since the human body burns up alcohol at the rate of one ounce per hour, a person could take three drinks in a two hour period and not be considered drunk...