Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago trouble broke out between Emperor Simmons and Former Wizard Edward Young Clarke on the one hand and Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans on the other. Legal action was brought against the Evans group...
...smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would not be violated or disrespected one whit more than they are violated here tonight in serving us coffee...
...granted although Mr. Hearst and the Star Company filed a demurrer to prevent the suit, and were overruled. It is an old, old trick to begin a libel suit before election and drop it afterwards. Apparently Mr. Murphy has some new tricks in his bag. Unless some further legal business intervenes, Mr. Murphy will have an opportunity to go before a jury, shouting, chanting, singing...
...Would bootlegging be legal if conducted at some few miles above the ground...
...face of the author's enthusiasm swaddled in legalistic conceptions Professor Murray's Attic sanity is most reassuring. The author is too enamoured of the grandiose conception and presumptive powers of a world state, not to mention the magnificently troubled legal waters that would lave its moral boundaries in which he would be so expert a pilot if not fisherman. Professor Murray points out that our feet are still on the ground and provides a sobering antidote to the effects of too literal an acceptance of Mr. Keen's personal convictions...