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...other member of the trio is Charles Butterworth who has the misfortune to appear in "Illicit", and that only too rarely. Something should be said about the picture since there's plenty of space in this review and nothing much else to talk about. Miss Stanwyck is modern and Miss Stanwyck, though being old-fashioned enough to fall head over heels in love, as she so graphically describes the emotion, is modern enough to believe that marriage is poison to said emotion. So she goes away on weekends (that's where they get the title, that and a sly hint...
After detailing all the sources from which illicit liquor freely flows, the Commission remarked upon the Government's apparent inability "to catch the men higher up." Of speakeasies the Commission said: "The number closed each year is large. But the number does not decrease on that account. There is a thoroughly organized business which replaces its retail selling agencies as fast as they are discovered and closed up. . . . Probably a much greater number of those who patronize speakeasies can afford to do so than was true in the case of the saloon. Thus the closing of the saloon has been...
Commissioner Anderson argued that his system would: eliminate the private profit from illicit liquor traffic, satisfy local public opinion, avert the state of nullification into which Prohibition is now drifting. The Government would enlist the power of economic law to beat the bootlegger. He argued that the U. S., in the Federal Reserve System and the Interstate Commerce Commission, has already applied to Money and Transportation the principle he now proposed for Liquor...
...love and then go out and try to reproduce what they see there because they think that is what the modern collegian must do to be up to date. Our vice squad tells me that it is a common practice for students who intend to spend the night in illicit sex adventures first to attend a movie to sharpen their mood. That is why we have more trouble with rooming houses located near theatres than with all others. Many people, in judging the significance of American influence in the Philippines, believe that the movies play a large and undesirable part...
...through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than I did. In 1926 the Circuit Court of Appeals held that income from illicit sources could not be taxed. The next year the Supreme Court ruled differently. I have never committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have never done anything that is condemned by society as morally wrong. I didn't pay income taxes because the laws were not clear. But if society...