Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered whether this policy, if it was a policy, would be extended to its logical conclusion of letting Wet states stay Wet. Although the Justice Department shied away from formulating any specific division of enforcement responsibilities, it apparently meant to confine its activities to interstate liquor shipments and large illicit plants, leaving states to deal with petty leggers and the Treasury to cope with alcohol diversion (under Commissioner Doran) and smuggling (under the Coast Guard and Customs service...
...Camaguey, Cuba, El Camagueyano, leading newspaper, printed an invective against the national lottery as being illicit gambling and a public fraud. Three days later its editorial staff, who like most Cubans habitually buy lottery tickets, collectively won the biggest prize, took...
...incidentally procures for a client a copy of a book for which he asks. It was because of this evident difference that Assemblyman Langdon Post last year introduced into the New York State Legislature a bill absolving booksellers from prosecution if they would divulge the source of the illicit product; and while Mr. Post's bill may have had flaws of detail, the proposal is sure, and properly so, in one form or another, to come up again. --New York Herald Tribune...
...realm of illegality all the apparatus and paraphernalia of brewing, distilling and distributing. "Under the afflatus of the 18th Amendment" the court held that the U. S. could seize barrels, bottles, corks, labels, cartons, etc., etc. when they were put on sale to be used in connection with illicit liquor...
...Their maternal uncles, Harry and Barney Barnato had preceded them, had somehow garnered a few thousand pounds, bought some claims at Kimberley. Shortly thereafter the Barnatos and the Joels found themselves in the eclectic company of world's richest men. In 1884 Brother Jack was involved in the Illicit Buying Case, jumped bail in South Africa, returned to England where he has lived ever since. In 1898 Brother Woolf was shot and killed by a German adventurer, one von Woltheim...