Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impresario, simply shook hands with every one, let them look at him, talk to him, ask him questions. A North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that Hooverism is extremely Dry. (North Dakota lately voted within 5,000 of repealing its longtime State enforcement law.) North Dakota's boyish Senator Gerald P. Nye was there and, though the Nominee declined to commit himself to an extra session of Congress for Farm Relief, Senator Nye announced: "I was in doubt before Hoover's acceptance speech, but he has talked frankly. I find...
...Business leaders, who have the largest stake in law observance, set the example of law defiance...
...widespread disobedience to the liquor law as embodied in the Constitution, the business leaders of the country are very largely responsible. Had our business leaders frowned upon instead of encouraging bootlegging, had they raised their voices in protest of public and private violations, had they used their money and their influence to obtain a fair trial for one of the best measures ever adopted by this or any other country-in other words, if they had supported the Constitution of the United States-our public officials (including our judges), our children, our servants, our employes and the thinking public generally...
Nellie: "I can cook but my mother-in-law wouldn...
...wife, their two children, and his sister-in-law, Léonie Sylvestre, received an invitation from the Rev. J. B. Dubuc, parish priest of Lavigne. Would they come, the priest enquired, to have supper with him? Afterward, perhaps they would all go boating on the lake. So Albert La Frenière and the rest went to supper with the priest and later, in a gasoline launch, out across the close darkness of the lake. It was a warm, calm evening; everyone was apparently in the best of humor; no accident occurred to mar their merriment until when they...