Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year William Larsen, a Department of Justice secret agent, changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law violation which he had not committed. Warden John W. Snook received him as any other prisoner...
...slight violations and so called regular bootlegging or attempts to commercialize violations of law". This latter provision has no legal effect since it is but a pious exhortation to the judges to be nice to the amateur offender and to be severe on the individual engaged in the liquor business. But that of course is what courts do anyway and it is submitted that there is no remedy if a particularly "dry" judge should visit a youthful first offender with the maximum penalty...
...term of the President who appointed him; 2) whether Andrew W. Mellon is disqualified as Secretary of the Treasury by reason of the law which forbids that officer to engage in business or commerce, etc., or the law which forbids Internal Revenue officers engaging in the tobacco or liquor business. The first part of this resolution was perfunctorily absurd* and would not have been urged if only Secretary Davis had been involved. The second part was designed simply to embarrass Mr. Mellon, though its proponents knew the odds were all against their ousting him. The "liquor business" charge...
...ceased manufacturing three years before prohibition came into effect and he had disposed of the stock before becoming Secretary of the Treasury. He stated bluntly: "At no time was I ever actively engaged in the distilling business. I have no interest in or connection with the distillation of liquor or any liquor business...
...poster designs. ¶ The first few days of operation of the Jones Act ($10,000-fine-and-five-years-in-jail law) brought out the following observations : That although it makes manufacture, transportation and sale, however trivial, a felony, it imposes no new penalty for illegal possession of liquor, an omission which may be welcome to many. That the new law is in the nature of "protection" for U. S. citizen-bootleggers; for, since offense is a felony, aliens found guilty can be at once deported, restricting the field largely to native or naturalized businessmen. First reports on the operation...