Word: illicitness
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...Washington, the Prohibition Bureau gave 100 Ib. of lead pipe confiscated from illicit distilleries to be cast into toy soldiers for poor children...
Representing all parts of Belgium, this Brussels demonstration was against the proposed tax increase on beer and other drinkables which Belgian legislators want to jack sky-high in the name of Temperance. Demanding "reasonable taxes." the grocers & wineshop-keepers charged that Belgian "bootleggers are making fortunes by selling illicit alcohol while honest shopkeepers pay all the taxes...
...differs but little . . . from the one raging within the unhappy borders of Russia. . . ." What to do? The Holy Father counsels Mexican Catholics to obey the law but to protest unremittingly. "To approve such an iniquitous law or spontaneously to give to it true and proper co-operation is undoubtedly illicit and sacrilegious. But absolutely different is the case of him who yields to such unjust regulations solely against his will. . . . His behavior consequently is not much different from that of one who, having been robbed of his belongings, is obliged to ask his unjust despoiler for at least...
...have "turned the corner." And herein lay the crisis. The narrow spread between crude and gasoline means small profits for refiners. Oilmen nervously watched production figures, feeling that the first surge of unwanted oil would upset the price structure. In Oklahoma, where troopers have dug up most of the illicit pipelines which secretly carried oil from shut-in wells to open wells, production was in hand last week. But enforcing proration has become increasingly difficult and the State's commissioners were reported almost ready to give up. Production in the East Texas field showed a tendency to mount despite...
...hour and a half, mother love is engaged in a deadly combat with an illicit attraction for a third corner,--all within the predominantly maternal bosom of la Dietrich. The theme is not new, but, with such a supporting cast, might have become convincing. After the first half hour, however, the audience loses interest in the plot. There is not too much disappointment; after all it has played money to see Dietrich, and there she is, beautiful as ever, even without benefit of direction. Such an attitude may swell box office receipts, but it does not make for good...