Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continued Congressman Fort: "I don't pretend to be much of a lawyer these days. . . . But this latter provision seems to me to lift cider and light wines home-made for home use out of the one-half of i % definition and to apply the test of intoxication in fact. ... If they can be lawfully made, they can be lawfully possessed in the home of the maker. Whether this language can be stretched to cover home-brew non-intoxicating in fact is another question but clearly the making of home-made light wines and ciders is not prohibited. . . . Perhaps...
Chairman Graham, wealthy, moustachioed, smart attorney for Pennsylvania R. R., was the special hero of the day. Successor to Andrew John Volstead as the head of the Judiciary Committee, he promised to "lift the lid" at the hearings and give the Wets all the latitude they wanted to make their points against the 18th Amendment. In addition to the repeal resolutions, arguments will be heard on 2-75% beer and on the Canadian system of government liquor control. Prime speaker for the Wets: Representative James Montgomery Beck, onetime Solicitor General of the U. S., expert guide through the legalistic mazes...
...when Dr. H. W. Leatham and his partner, Lord Aberdare, who with another partner won the national U. S. doubles championship two years ago when he was the Hon. Clarence Napier Bruce, stepped on the court long enough to give Kemp-Welch and Cambridge a brisk lesson and lift the title...
...years Cleveland, the first big U. S. city to try to lift its government above ward politics, has had a City Manager. Three times in the past three years Cleveland has voted to keep City Management. The last vote was in August (TIME, Sept. 2). On that occasion City Manager William Rowland Hopkins breathed a happy sigh, looked out into the night, and declaimed: "The future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moonbeams." Had he been a sterner, less rhapsodical prophet, he would have chosen another simile, for last week, less constant than...