Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representatives, two Senators). A survey of the Congressional Record for those two days, however, would give an entirely different impression as to the Senate's industry. The clerk's desk was submerged under a steady drizzle of notifications by the states that they had ratified the liquor and child labor amendments. Followed a downpour of reports concerning almost everything from the progress of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the results of a survey of the cotton velvet and velveteen industry. These were succeeded by a torrent of communications from such organizations...
...session entered its second week, the Senate emerged from its legislative doldrums, prepared to tackle the liquor bill just passed by the House...
Work Done. Business of the week was passage of the liquor tax bill, providing a levy of $2 a gal. on spirits; and from 10? to $1.10 a gal. on wines (estimated revenue: $500,000,000). It passed 388 to 5 after two days' windy debate...
...Eastview, N. Y. Keeper Arthur W. Trevitt of the Westchester County penitentiary traced the smell of liquor to the main cell block, found five gallons of homemade liquor fermenting in a fire extinguisher...
...further ironic comment on the muddled and glucy state of the Congressional mind is provided by the debate about the tax to be levied on liquor. Mr. Connelly wants a tax of five dollars a gallon or more in order, he explains, to break up the "Whiskey Trust." Unfortunately, this does not appeal to Mr. Shoemaker of Wisconsin. What we need even more than a five cent cigar, he avers, is whiskey at twenty-five cents a quart. As an after-thought he appended the interesting information that when he was a guest of the government at Leavenworth Prison, there...