Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of this decision, the first of its kind by an appellate court, was to transfer to the U. S. the burden of proving, not that home-made wine contains more than .5% alcohol but that it contains enough alcohol to make a person drunk and hence is outside the "non-intoxicating" clause of the Volstead Act and therefore illegal...
...decision not only for the U. S. Prohibition Unit but also for U. S. grape-growers, especially in California, who prepare legal grape juice for shipment to urban customers who, in turn, let it ferment naturally to wine. There was one catch: the court ruling covered only home-made wine from raw materials gathered on the homestead, not from materials purchased elsewhere...
...very difficult to stop. Politically it is a touchy problem, too. If the wet-voting city winemaker is prosecuted, for consistency's sake so must the Dry-voting country cider & wine men be prosecuted. The hair-splitting decision of the Court of Appeals last week, distinguishing between home-grown and market-bought beverage materials, may contain the basis of a solution...
...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...