Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky, one of the two men, was indicted with others for conspiracy to withdraw liquor illegally. Representative Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland, the other man accused by the Chicago grand jury, was not indicted. Thereupon the House committee took up its own investigation, handling the Zihlman case first, in order that the Langley case might have time to go through the courts...
Search-warrants for harems will be the order of the day in Turkey if a movement to repeal the Turkish Volstead Act succeeds. The Ministry of Finance estimated that a revenue of $3,000,000 will be available if the sale of liquor is authorized again. The proposal is to permit the manufacture, sale and taxation of liquor, but forbid any sale to women...
...Passed by vote of 305 to 49 a bill to make legal the transfer of surplus naval vessels which might be useful to the Coast Guard in its liquor patrol work...
...Aircraft Corporation; 2) that he had received, also on Smith's behalf, various sums from the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film affair; 3) that he had tried "to get something" on Senators; La Follette and Caraway; 4) that President Harding had ordered that he investigate Secretary Mellon in regard to liquor withdrawal frauds?"the President wanted that information in regard to him: to catch him, and we caught...
...three hours the Senate debated behind closed doors. Then a vote was taken-61 to 7, in favor of the treaty which will permit British ships to bring liquor into American ports under seal in exchange for which American officers may seize British rum smugglers within an hour's sail of our coast...