Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the decision of the Supreme Court making the carrying and sale of liquor legal on American vessels, Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board announced that government ships would continue dry until the President withdrew his previous dry edict. Mr. Harding has not done so, and is not expected to. Mr. Lasker is nevertheless openly in favor of having Shipping Board vessels sell liquor in order to place them on equality with their competitors which...
From the President's standpoint, however, it would be decidedly unwise. Mark Sullivan, able Washington correspondent of The New York Tribune, says: " There have been few things that hurt the Administration so much as the disclosure that liquor was being sold on the ships owned and operated by the United States Shipping Board." The President ordered that to cease some time ago, and now to rescind that order would be to open himself once more to criticism...
...ships to be run actively by the Government itself, if the present program for selling the ships fails, as is predicted. To operate the ships, it will be necessary to have funds from Congress, and Congress is still looked upon as dry. Allowing Shipping Board vessels to resume liquor sales, might seriously imperil the Administration's plan for Government operation...
...regulations give rise to some delicate international questions. Government officials, anxious to avoid complications, may be expected to draft the new regulations " with discretion." Theoretically a ship carrying liquor, bound for example, from the Bermudas to Canada, would, if its course should chance to come within the three mile limit of the United States, be subject to seizure for illegal importation and transportation of liquor. It is understood, however, that no seizures of foreign vessels will be made; that at most the liquor will be confiscated and certain other penalties imposed. Besides, foreign ships will be allowed to bring into...
British estimates are that a quantity of liquor equal to about half of cne per cent of the amount consumed in the United States prior to prohibition will come here from the Bahamas in 1923 at the present rate of export. The Springfield Republican points an interesting parallel between rum smuggling and slave smuggling prior to the Civil War, which makes this figure seem rather insignificant. The importation of slaves to the United States was forbidden in 1808, but illicit trade continued over 50 years until the Civil War and the Declaration of Emancipation. England was against the slave trade...