Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, when a customs inspection can be made. The reason is that if the pictures can be successfully smuggled into a state, the government cannot prevent exhibition. Congress can regulate commerce, but it cannot prevent the showing of pictures any more than it could stop the sale of liquor before the Eighteenth Amendment...
...final proclamation the meeting set forth: "The opposing forces are drawn up for the supreme struggle. It is law or liquor; the Constitution or anarchy...
...flat. Benedict Arnold was the father of his country and first president of the United States. The American navy will be of ships carrying one big gun in time of war and cargoes of Fords in time of peace. The American army will be used in suppressing the liquor traffic and the teaching of evolution in Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and Germany...
...House of Lords, Lord Curzon, Foreign Minister, said: " There is no chance of our agreeing in any circumstances whatever to the American proposal for a twelve-mile territorial limit." His contention was that, while the United States had a legal right to seize liquor under seal, she was in fact violating international custom...
Lord Grey, ex-Foreign Minister, said that both sides had cause for complaint. It was obviously unfair for America to let foreign ships attract the bulk of passengers by allowing them to take liquor into the territorial limit. On the other hand it was equally annoying for foreign ships to be deprived of liquor for the whole of the return journey. As Prohibition in the United States was likely to stand, he thought it was extremely advisable that the two Governments should reach an amicable arrangement. He further suggested that the two Governments should publish the full correspondence...