Word: illicitness
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Opium Ships. Generals Couzens of Michigan and Robinson of Arkansas suddenly moved to insert a provision in the tariff bill making the owners as well as the skippers of ships subject to fine for bringing illicit opium to the U. S. As they opened fire, Republicans and Democrats alike turned their guns on the opium fleet. For a few moments a hot fusillade from both sides poured into the invaders lying at anchor off the shore...
...Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit is an example of departmental jealousy triumphant. . . . The beating of drums and issuance of mimeographed threats of a great Prohibition offensive will not aid the government. . . . Rum runners are not scared when Uncle Sam hollers...
...Southern solicitude for racial purity, stated: "Everyone knows that the percentage of white blood flowing in the veins of Mr. and Mrs. De Priest is due to the direct violation of Negro womanhood by avaricious Southern white men, who should have remembered in the heat of their unbridled illicit intercourse that Mother Nature does not know how to discriminate in the production of offspring." Pointing squarely at the politicians who fanned the fire, the Courier predicted: "In 1932 they will be parading Mrs. De Priest's photograph to keep the South solid, Democratic and undefiled...
...extremely doubtful, if the event will precipitate a Franco-American war, but it is certain to cause worry in the breasts of students of literature who take their duties seriously. Will they resort to readeasies and readhouses for glances at the illicit pages of Voltaire? It is doubtful, for although the book, like alcohol, has been banned from entry into the United States, the book, like alcohol is still on sale in Boston...
...make on Canton: "I can tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death of Mellett, although he had previously been...