Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead Act prohibits the manufacture sale and transportation of potable alcoholic liquors containing as much as one-half of one per cent of liquor measured by volume. The reason for this seemingly small limit is not as fully understood as it should be and the reason for the rule is because of the attitude of the brewers themselves. The early state wide prohibition laws quite generally permitted the manufacture and sale of beer containing alcohol up to two per cent. The brewers who, in fact controlled in one way or another a great part of the saloons, were determined that...
...brewers themselves, proved to be exceedingly efficient and the idea has been adopted in nearly every state enforcement act since that time. One after another the state dry laws, permitting the two per cent privilege, were modified to conform to the one-half of one per cent limit. The brewers themselves by their systematic attempt to destroy the prohibition laws only succeeded in destroying their two per cent privilege. Threshed out in actual experience covering a period of nearly twenty years, the two per cent limit was such an apparent failure that any legislation that could be at all effective...
...prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Any restoration of light wines and beer would be merely a restoration of the scandals that accompanied the enforcement of prohibition laws during the last two decades when the people generously sought to extend the brewers a two per cent limit...
When the Senate added the presumptuous Gerry resolution to the Lodge reservations on the Peace Treaty, it started the ball rolling for a series of acts of international impropriety that have strained to the limit the friendly relations of Great Britain and America. The Mason bill, proposing that complete diplomatic and consular service be established with the Irish Republic, increased still more the weight of international misunderstanding. And now 88 members of Congress have enabled Lloyd George, criticising the treatment of political prisoners in Ireland...
...ideal we advocate a happy mean--say a quarter limit and twenty percent. Ideals were the possession of another less mysterious generation. Our free and Puritanical ancestors with their toddy...