Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe in temperance. . . . The mothers and fathers of young men and women throughout this land know the anxiety and worry which has been brought to them by their children's use of liquor in a way which was unknown before prohibition. I believe in reverence for law. Today disregard of the prohibition laws is insidiously sapping respect for all law. I raise, therefore, what I profoundly believe to be a great moral issue involving the righteousness of our national conduct and the protection of our children's morals...
...local anti-Smith organization among "old-line" Democrats. Nathan Newby, James 0. Davis, Mrs. Katherine Braddock and Mrs. James Ellis Tucker, California (McAdoo) Democrats. Reasons: Prohibition, Tammany. Vance McCormick, chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in 1916. Reason, as revealed in the McCormick-owned Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot: "to disregard the Constitution ... is destined to lead to anarchy and chaos...
...been going on around him in Chicago ever since Prohibition. He said: "The crime surveys show that crimes of violence, especially in the urban centres, committed largely by bootleggers and beer runners, have increased to an alarming extent. It is asserted that the existing condition conduces to a growing disregard of all law, especially by our young people, to an extent that is appalling. Frequently we read of policemen and law-enforcing officials being bribed and debauched and of innocent victims being shot down by overzealous officers in their efforts to enforce the Volstead Act. "Many of our representative citizens...
...permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to proceed. ... I hardly think that the United States would appear to greater advantage when paying for an odious crime against state law than when inciting to the disregard of its own. . . . It is a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part...
...drinking wine. Similarly Queen Wilhelmina has her own pious opinion of people who indulge in sport on Sunday, the Lord God's appointed Day of Rest. Therefore Her Majesty has been put in a quandary by the famed Olympic Games, now being held in Amsterdam with a pagan disregard of Sunday...