Word: bootleg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is to be accomplished by repealing the supplementary act while leaving the first one in full force? About the only thing which it could possibly accomplish would be to make it easier for bootleggers. It might make liquor more abundant and cheap, but it would still be bootleg liquor. If the proposed repeal had been drafted by the King of the Bootleggers himself, it could scarcely have been more to his liking. If the state should repeal its law forbidding manufacture, importation, and transportation of liquor, state and local police would not feel like interfering with illicit stills, however...
Several questions should be considered by those who are neither fanatically wet nor fanatically dry. How would the increased sale and consumption of bootleg liquor affect the safety of our highways? Would it tend to increase or to decrease drunken driving...