Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...character and his reliability, who denied there was any conspiracy, who de- clared that on at least one occasion Mr. Mortimer had not given Mr. Forbes money as the former had testified, who told that Mr. Mortimer had sworn to "get" Mr. Forbes for not joining him to make illicit profits, who declared that Mr. Mortimer had threatened to drag his wife's name in the mire when she would not give fake testimony to ruin Mr. Forbes...
...duties of the parents and the relations of both to the community are determined in a rather widely varying fashion by the legislative enactments of the several states. The laws of many of the states, such as Louisiana, still show the effect of the once general belief that illicit intercourse is discouraged by casting a stigma on its offspring. Arizona, on the other hand, is a world pioneer in abolishing distinctions between children born in and out of wedlock. One of its statutes (Ariz. Laws 1921, c. 114) provides that every child is a legitimate child of its natural parents...
...That naturalization laws be amended to provide for an annual en- rollment of resident aliens. This would help to prevent undetected immigrants from coming in by illicit means. Coupled with it would be a plan for educating aliens in U. S. "customs, language, ideals, institutions...
...Internal Revenue Blair has hampered the work of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Moreover, the bill would remove the control of industrial alcohol from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the Prohibition Unit. The League claims that "6,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol was used last year to supply the illicit trade. Reduced to 40% whiskey, this provided 240,000,000 half pints of bootleg." The bill would also place the Prohibition Unit under the merit svstem. Secretary Mellon approved this bill. Its last feature, the application of civil-service rules to the Unit, is generally approved...
...preliminary session of the Conference, after Herluf Zahle of Denmark had been elected President, Mr. Porter brusquely insinuated that the first conference, called to discuss the means of eliminating illicit trade in opium (TIME, Nov. 24), had been wasting time. The American delegation, he inferred, was out to force the issue. Said he: "We have no agreement before us and yet we must deal effectively with the question of production. The dictates of common sense demand a frank admission of the dilemma in which this failure has placed the second conference, and the consideration of the possibility and wisdom...