Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the decision of the Supreme Court making the carrying and sale of liquor legal on American vessels, Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board announced that government ships would continue dry until the President withdrew his previous dry edict. Mr. Harding has not done so, and is not expected to. Mr. Lasker is nevertheless openly in favor of having Shipping Board vessels sell liquor in order to place them on equality with their competitors which...
...situation is briefly this: the British Government would like to assist the United States in evidence of friendliness. The sale and transportation of liquor, however, is perfectly legal for British subjects, and the Government cannot act to abridge their rights. Moreover, it is to British commercial interest that the liquor trade should go on. So there is little likelihood of any decisive assistance coming from Great Britain...
...slave trade, too, and not commercially interested in its continuance, as she now is in the rum traffic. But in 1858, according to the calculation of Stephen A. Douglas, 15,000 slaves were brought into this country-a greater number than was ever imported while the traffic was legal. By this comparison the United States Government is not doing so poorly in its enforcement of prohibition...
...suggestion that navy boats and navy personnel be used to catch rum runners is still the subject of discussion in Washington. According to reports: the President favors it; the Navy Department looks askance; the Attorney-General is preparing an opinion; it is not legal; there are no funds for it in the Treasury Department (which enforces the Volstead law); it is illegal to spend Navy funds for the purpose; the Navy has no funds; there is an emergency fund which might be used. In brief: nothing is yet done...
...American Society of Newspaper Editors aims to be to journalism what the American Bar Association is to the legal fraternity...