Word: legale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Human flaws, not legal flaws, have furnished the loopholes through which bootleggers have swarmed...
Significant was the decision not only for the U. S. Prohibition Unit but also for U. S. grape-growers, especially in California, who prepare legal grape juice for shipment to urban customers who, in turn, let it ferment naturally to wine. There was one catch: the court ruling covered only home-made wine from raw materials gathered on the homestead, not from materials purchased elsewhere...
...unconstitutionally radical. With the aid of Senators Walsh of Montana, Norris of Nebraska and Elaine of Wisconsin, the A. F. of L. last week concocted a substitute bill which, if adopted, would change the whole character of labor troubles, strengthen strikes, compel employers to ground their injunction applications on legal proof instead of fears...
Smart citymen are not without benefit from the Doran order. Well they know that they can share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
...judges know of this quantitative test. They depend upon the layman's crude idea of drunkenness?can the accused walk a straight line, can he stand on one leg, can he clearly enunciate "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Perhaps a medico-legal diagnosis of just what does constitute drunkenness may evolve for the world from clinical investigations which Belgium's Societe de medecine legale now has under...