Word: important
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When liquor was legalized, Federal Alcohol Control Administration was swamped with 1,000 requests for permission to bring in 50,000,000 gal. of foreign wines & spirits. In the peak pre-War years, 12,000,000 gal. had been the annual importation. Accordingly, FACA issued import licenses after drastically reducing all importers' quotas. This action wrought considerably more hardship on legitimate dealers who had applied only for their honest needs than it did on a number of unscrupulous speculators and ex-'leggers who applied for quotas in the names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with...
Proposition: If he would let the Mogul come unharmed into Los Angeles Harbor, her 40,000 cases of liquor ($500,000), owned by Frenchmen of Tahiti, would be put in a bonded warehouse to be sold "in accordance with any import quotas that...
...wrathful defense of their wines Australian editors lashed President Roosevelt last week, demanding that Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons "take reprisal" for Washington's omission of Australia from the list of countries assigned a quota for U. S. import of their wines (TIME...
...gospelers for their infant industry, Australians insisted last week that if U. S. citizens are denied the delights of Australian Para Port, Michenbury Sparkling Burgundy and Chateau Tanunda Brandy, then Premier Lyons must restrict by quota the import into Australia of U. S. motor cars. Premier Lyons, calmer than most of his fellow citizens, made no open threats, quietly approached President Roosevelt through diplomatic channels as one "good neighbor'' to another...
...exceptions, however, are important, for they are the people for whom the functions of the League are justifiable. That it occupies itself and its members with mimicking that real League over which the world is now saying the count of nine, that it imitates the real League falsely and badly, that the real League is of no import, these considerations do not matter. For those who are interested in it the League fulfills the praiseworthy object of being an interest. Through it they escape the reproach of being indifferent, the rigours of participation in a live, unhypothetical movement, and they...