Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pier for the effects of any other traveler whose last initial was D. Yet Mrs. Dodge had declared only $17,000 worth of imports. "Did she think we were that dumb?" asked inspectors who had pounced on her ostentatious quantities of luggage, appraised its contents of contraband at about $100,000. If some European tipster, scenting the obvious, warned U. S. authorities of Mrs. Dodge's approach, he was entitled to the usual 25% reward - an easy...
Make Food Non-Contraband...
...engineer sees also an even more fundamental argument. The condition in which food is contraband is one of those underlying forces that make for war. It makes for war not only among nations, like Great Britain, whose geographic and economic conditions leave them subject to suffering from the cutting off of food in case of war. (This condition is the greatest one cause of Great Britain's insistence upon large naval armament, is the greatest one cause leading many British statesmen to feel they must preserve in their people a readiness for war, a martial spirit, year in and year...
...short, treating food as contraband is seen by President Hoover as an active force working for war; treating food for civilian populations as immune is suggested by him as a force working for peace, as a new force that would neutralize one of the forces of war. Vision of the problem in terms of forces is characteristic...
...London. At the Coast Guard base is stored some $500,000 worth of seized liquor. On the night of the Black Duck episode, the service brought in the Flor del Mar, loaded with liquor and in a sinking condition. Hastily she was unloaded, and soon her contraband cargo began to appear in New London speakeasies at $2 per bottle. Some Coast Guardsmen became drunk and rowdy. The base commander put a guard around his station, leveled destroyer searchlights upon it. Each guardsman "going ashore" was thoroughly searched at the gate to prevent liquor smuggling out of the base. The gate...