Word: barring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third to say his say was Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, onetime (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association and a conspicuous member of Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem...
...track, where each spring more than $98,250 is posted for one horserace, is so near California that tourists park Fords and Cadillacs on the U. S. side to avoid the nuisance of search (for liquor) when race day is done. A signpost says AL HIPPODROMO and a long bar under the grandstand dispenses beer and spirits. Otherwise the racetrack and its patrons are markedly Americano...
They go clanking across the bar of the gambling table and drag at the tourist's pocket. One silver dollar purchases two cocktails; two whiskies; two tots of rum. Beer is 10 or 15 cents per glass, depending on the glitter of the dispensary...
These bartenders comprise the ranking industry. For Tiajuana, exotic as it may sound to the dry and fevered U.S. fancy, is nothing but a couple of dirty streets of barrooms. It is almost epic in its drabness. One bar stretches an entire block and announces itself as "The Longest Bar in the World."* Some have mechanical music; some musicians. Most places have small clearings for dancing. All smell...
...generally believed that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled to a vice den and repeatedly assaulted. Thomas Peteet, miserably ashamed, turned on the gas in a San Diego hotel and killed his whole family. Four Mexicans were tried for the crime, and acquitted...