Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared that America " seemed well within her rights" in seizing liquor on British ships...
Said the ex-Premier: " It is not a question of whether we are or are not prohibitionists, but America is making a very bold experiment to deal with probably the greatest curse of civilization. ... It is all very well for us to say that all this liquor is merely for our own sailors on board ship. . . . Give it [prohibition] a fair trial [in America]. ... If they succeed they will have the gratitude of the whole world...
After seven years of prohibition the province of Manitoba "went wet". By a majority of more than 25,000 votes the electorate adopted a system of Government-sold liquor...
Under the terms of the measure the Manitoban Government will appoint a commission of three members to administer the sale of drink as a beverage in permanent or temporary residences of permit holders. Breweries will be permitted to deliver to the homes of purchasers, and liquor sold in Government stores may also be delivered. This system corresponds roughly to those adopted by the Governments of British Columbia and Quebec...
Andrew W. Mellon: "The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church issued an official and formal statement on the subject of Canadian liquor. Referring to me the Board said: 'We suggest to him with the best of good wishes that he be a watermelon on this occasion...