Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what his plans were. Not sure himself, he replied: "I do not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment. I stand for the efficient enforcement of the law. . . . Grave abuses have occurred. An organized searching investigation of fact and causes can alone determine the wise method of correcting them." Congress last week voted $250,000 "for such inquiry into the problem of law enforcement, including national prohibition, as the President may direct...
Legislation. Prohibition was the yeast of the last hours of Congress. The final brew was in two batches...
...drawn by Senator Jones of Washington, to increase the penalties for Volstead violations. Congress wanted to punish habitual violators more memorably than at present, and a peculiar phrase was inserted in the act instructing judges to "discriminate." The rest of the act was also peculiar, because...
...enforcement of the law Congress voted a routine $37,000,000 and then an extra $3,000,000, the purpose of which seemed to be-in the minds of its Dry proponents-to show President Hoover that money would be no object if he would really take enforcement seriously...
...surgeon, about to make a transfusion, scientifically matches a donor's blood to his patient's to such purpose that no shock results. In like manner Congress has ordained that Immigration shall be scientifically matched to the U. S. racial bloodstream...