Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gaston B. Means, ex-supersleuth ot the Department of Justice, testified that Secretary Mellon had had a part in an illegal scheme to withdraw liquor from bonded warehouses. Said Mr. Means: "Mellon is the arch enemy of the Government, the arch traitor. Daugherty is a much higher class man, a much finer man than Mellon. Mr. Mellon was born grabbing dollars...
Following the recent pronouncement on the liquor question by President Nicholas Murray Butler, LL.D. '09, of Columbia University, Representative Celler wrote President Eliot, contrasting the latter's position in 1897, when he was opposed to prohibition, and his present support of Dr. Butler's pronouncement. In reply to this letter, President Eliot said that he became a total abstainer from liquor at the age of 83. At this time, he said, he came to the conclusion that nationwide prohibition was necessary, basing his conclusions on the results of the medical examination of results for the national army...
...further explanation of his change of view, President Eliot related two sets of observations which he had made of the "local option" method of regulating liquor sales. The first observation was made while he was spending most of his summers on the island of Mount Desert, in Maine. Although the Maine prohibition laws were rigidly enforced there, at the neighboring summer colony of Bar Harbor it was impossible to enforce the laws at all, because of the importation of liquor from neighboring states. Later in Massachusetts, when Cambridge was dry and Boston Wet, Dr. Eliot again observed the failure...
...English language, but should like to point out that this statement is quite contrary to the facts involved. This "tyrannical decree" "In defiance of public opinion" was already in existence in thirty-three States of the Union before the Eighteenth Amendment was put before the people. The first Liquor Law was enacted in Maine more than fifty years ago. This was not an upstart regulation "put over" on the nation when the boys were at the front; it is an inevitable crystalization of a strong public conviction which has been growing for half a century...
...CRIMSON has obtained the following letter written by Mr. H. H. Noyes '02 to Mr. C. T. Greve '84 president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, in connection with the notice sent out to members inviting all those who were planning to attend the annual meeting to bring their own liquor. The letter follows...