Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wets have their whisky and the state gets its taxes." Though they have the only statewide prohibition statute in the U.S., Mississippians have no trouble getting a drink in 59 of 82 counties. Bootleggers support the 58-year-old law because they can make a greater profit on liquor when it is illegal. Drinkers also generally approve of the dichotomy, although whisky smuggled from neighboring states costs more than anywhere else in the Southeast...
...brightest hue of all is green. Though the state has taxed the illegal liquor trade since World War II, it managed to collect only $5,000,000 last year-and revenue-poor Mississippi could use a lot more. Johnson has in mind a state-run distribution system similar to that in Washington state-which with approximately the same population collected $42 million in liquor taxes last year. Johnson proposed to earmark the extra funds for the state's inadequate school system and public health services. Also tourists and conventioneers, who prefer not to break a law to bend...
...biggest charity event of the year, the Junior League carnival ball, took place three nights after his speech. Along with other celebrators, the Governor dropped in on a Jackson country club for a nightcap only to find that sheriff's deputies had got there first, smashed the liquor-cabinet door with a sledge hammer, and carted off all the whisky, wine and gin to the Hinds County Courthouse. "Paul, can't you do something about this?" a lady in mink beseeched Johnson. "I made my stand, I took my chance," the Governor responded, dryly...
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