Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither foreign nor American ships may carry liquor within the three-mile limit, whether sealed...
...Congress may amend the Volstead Law to prohibit liquor on American vessels, but the Court's decision declared that it had neglected to do so by the terms of the present...
Transoceanic lines will probably have a Canadian port of call-such as Halifax-in order to load and unload their liquor supplies and thus take full advantage of the new interpretation...
...suppressing the traffic. The exact matter of the negotiations is not known. It is understood that Great Britain would decline to grant any extension of the three-mile limit. It is possible that Great Britain might notify the United States of ships clearing from British ports with large liquor cargoes. The suggestion that the Bahamas be placed on a liquor ration, however, is apparently not favored in the British Colonial office, as appears from statements in the House of Commons by Undersecretary W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore. A representative of the Christian Science Monitor, however, was " informed in well-informed...
...situation is briefly this: the British Government would like to assist the United States in evidence of friendliness. The sale and transportation of liquor, however, is perfectly legal for British subjects, and the Government cannot act to abridge their rights. Moreover, it is to British commercial interest that the liquor trade should go on. So there is little likelihood of any decisive assistance coming from Great Britain...