Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford in his new book, My Philosophy of Industry, writes: "In common decency the liquor generation should be allowed to die in silence. Its agonies should not be the constant topic of Ameri can journals...
...Lansing, Mich., courtroom last week Judge Charles B. Collingwood was sentencing Mrs. Etta Mae Miller. It had taken a jury of eight men and four women only 13 minutes to find her guilty. She was charged with having sold two pints of liquor. She was charged also with being a "habitual criminal," inasmuch as this last offense was her fourth. So to her said Judge Collingwood: "It is the sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court...
...Miller's life sentence, which began some two weeks before the ninth anniversary of U. S. Prohibition, was purely a Prohibition byproduct, inasmuch as her four convictions had all been found on liquor charges. In 1924, in 1925, in 1927, she had served from six days to a year for violation of the prohibition act. The life sentence was imposed under the Baumes-like Michigan law which establishes four convictions as the test of a "habitual criminal" and sentences such criminals to life terms. Mrs. Miller has ten children, two grandchildren. Her husband is serving his first liquor-conviction...
After a three day conference with Canadian officials, a United States delegation has returned across the border empty-handed. From its own point of view beforehand, obtaining cooperation from the neighboring Dominion in checking the liquor traffic between the two countries appeared to be comparatively easy; as it resulted, however, not a single proposal was accepted...
...earliest pieces of temperance propaganda in the "History of Liquor" collection of the Baker Library is the above time-table of the Dead River Grand Trunk Railway, which was printed by R. H. McDonald and Company of New York City about...