Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...level of the waters dropped a little in the dry weather, the Brule's inhabitants grew hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action. From trout-fishing, the President, one evening, turned to "plugging" for black bass. Guide John Laroque piloted him over the glassy sunset surface of Island Lake, 20 miles from the Lodge. Mrs. Coolidge and the secret-service men watched and applauded. The President caught ten. Another...
...Chris Greene's swell. Negro roustabouts exchanged cheers and grimaces. It was an oldtime scene, but without the oldtime violence and danger. Barging into the other boat or crowding it ashore was ruled out. Government inspectors were on hand to see that the racers did not exceed their legal allowances of boiler pressure. The Chris Greene drew a length ahead, two lengths, four lengths, five. The Chris Greene's purser appeared on deck with a big sign: "Chris Greene-Rah, Rah!" Thousands of people cheered from the leafy, sun-shot shores. At the finish the Betsy...
...used to elaborate, detailed advertisements of champagne. As everyone knows, bootleg champagne in the U. S, market is priced at $10-$15 a quart. These beguiling advertisements suggested the possibility of better-than-bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron-clad guarantee: "If you are not satisfied with the champagne you make, your money will be returned...
Thorough frisking by detectives of their prey showed that all 42 of the creatures arrested lacked certificates showing that the legal taxes and import duties had been paid upon their diamonds. With anguished faces and painful stomachs, they watched while unswallowed diamonds to a total weight of 2,000 carats were swept and gathered up by the police...
Criminals condemned to Death would be offered, under the law, a free choice between execution and inoculation with cancer. Twelve years would be the legal period of vivisection, and if, at the end of that time, the patient survived and had been cured he or she would return to society purged of guilt and perhaps honored as a hero, heroine...