Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's fiscal picture must be carefully scanned, and that doesn't mean next year, but now-and . . . not through a colored lens. . . . I am opposed, unless exceptional circumstances arise, to increasing by law the present limit of the national debt. The only way . . . is to begin immediately a radical and substantial cut in Government expenditures...
Plenty of liquor is drunk in Tennessee, and it is legal to manufacture liquor in Tennessee for export to other States. This last is due to the cuteness of rich, tieless old Lem Motlow who owns most of Moore County. In 1937, Lem Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign...
...over Governor Patterson's veto) Tennessee's first prohibition law. (A second act: to erect a heroic Carmack statue at the Capitol's entrance...
Tennessee did not vote back its bars. Its new law permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...
...York's retail liquor trade was stunned last week when the State Liquor Authority enforced against several leading Manhattan stores a hitherto ignored section of the law forbidding liquor sales on credit...