Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between U. S. throats and legal beer stands this definition in the first chapter of the Volstead Act. By a majority Congress can at will modify this sentence so as to eliminate the word "beer" and up the alcoholic content to 2.75% or more. If, how and when such modification is to occur continued to make much frothy news last week. Behind all the heady hopes and thirsty speculation lay the following sober facts...
Though wine was much more remote than beer, California vintners were also stirred with new hope. In that State before Prohibition were 770 wineries, of which 166 are still in operation under Federal license. Under bond are some 18,000,000 gal. of wine waiting for legal floodgates to open. The first mouquin wine catalog since 1918 was issued last week in Manhattan. The firm announced that it would have a ship loaded with a million dollars worth of wine ready to sail into New York and unload an hour after sales became legal...
...breaks out of a detention home to get to Honey. Lyda becomes embroiled in the escape, hears the police coming, watches Eve and Honey impale themselves on an iron fence five floors below, remains to face the news-photographers and notoriety, but is spared legal difficulties through her wealth...
...Institute of Criminal Law at the Harvard Law School, the first of its kind in this country, has as its program the scientific correction of criminals. In the wide curriculum are included economics, government, social and psychopathology; social ethics, casework, and research; mental hygiene, criminology, penology, and the usual legal subjects. The first part of the two-year course is spent in research, the summer in some penal institution if possible, and the second part in instruction. When these men have graduated, the Institute hopes to place them in probation or correctional offices, so that they may be able...
...mended without any sweeping changes. Furthermore, it augurs well for future success that the Institute does not act on the basis of sentimental humanitarianism, but rather from a scientific interest in social welfare. There are and will be many obstacles in its road, including the ponderous weight of a legal mechanism that is very difficult to change; but the Institute's willingness to work and seize at the nearest opportunity, and its methodical practicality give promise that it may be someday a definite force for good in American society...