Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the regulations for putting into effect the Supreme Court's decision against liquor aboard ship within the three mile limit were given out, five nations protested the intention of the United States as unfriendly. Spain and England presented notes; France, Italy, Holland had their representatives call at the State Department. None of the protests were extreme -they pointed out that the proposed regulations were " contrary to international custom," a dangerous precedent," " unjustifiable interference with the internal affairs of a ship...
...industrial districts there is an increasing demand for skilled labor that parallels the general demand for unskilled labor and farm workers. In New York every industry is undermanned-as is the case generally in the East. Trade is booming in every state. The South and Southwest need farmhands. Liquor and beverages, lumber, vehicles, paper, chemicals, stone, clay and glass industries have vastly increased employment since March. Thus labor has turned the corner and need fear little more reaction. With immigration restricted, there is a " corner in labor " that will enable union leaders to reestablish the positions they lost...
William Eugene (" Pussyfoot") Johnson: "In Kansas City, Mo., I declared: 'The liquor situation is getting better. Every country in the world is watching America...
Sigrud Fjaer, sT.S., of Norway, considered the foreign policy relating to the importation of wine to Norway. In 1914 all liquors containing more than 14 per cent of alcohol were prohibited in that country. France, Spain, and Portugal, the wine shippers, immediately made reprisals and forced Sweden, by injuring the fishing market, to raise the ban on liquor to 21 per cent...
Under the headline " British comment on Liquor Decision," all of the above statements are " summarized " by the London correspondent of The Monitor thus: " The Press here gives considerable prominence to the United States Supreme Court's decision on the question of a ship's right to bring liquor into United States ports...