Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iowa voted down two bills: one to prevent the use of the word physician by osteopaths, chiropractors and other cultists; the other limiting each druggist to the handling of 25 gallons of liquor per year...
Mexico bounds California for 160 miles. They are miles of trouble-not a mile but has been desecrated by narcotics, aliens, liquor, contraband whatnot...
...Every generation requires a new standard. This generation in the United States has set up a standard for the elimination of liquor. More and more people are realizing that they must defend the Prohibition Law because in its violation there is danger for all law. If a man can break the Volstead Act with immunity, he can commit bigamy; from bigamy he can go to theft. No property, no individual is safe under the law unless all law is obeyed...
...Newbury who clearly violated the Corrupt Practices Act. Out of this vicious tariff lobbying and out of campaign expenditures amounting to millions, have inevitably grown the insidious abuses of which the Harding administration has been guilty--the oil leases; land frauds; the Verterans Bureau scandal; secret tax refunds; illegal liquor withdrawals; stopping the prose cution of "friends" of the administration...
...phase of the liquor problem faced Lady Astor and the Government. Last month air passenger service began between Manchester and Belfast. By slipping a half-crown into a slot machine on the airliners, it is possible to obtain a double whisky and soda. One question raised is whether it will be legal to operate this ingenious device before "taking off"; another, whether, while in flight over a certain area, the liquor-sales hours of that area will apply to the plane...