Word: intoxicantsâ
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...talked with Herbert Hoover for five minutes, or read him on the subject of Child Welfare, or fairly compared his career before and after he left engineering, is described in relation to Prohibition as follows: All his mature life until the War he had the Continental attitude toward intoxicants???enjoyed them, knew how to handle them, seldom gave them a thought. When the U. S. adopted Prohibition, he stopped using alcohol. He was not particularly glad to do so.* But he was going into public life, wanted a clear record, and was ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would...
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