Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business of manufacturing alcohol, liquor and beer will go out of the hands of law-abiding members of the community, and will be transferred to the quasi-criminal class. In the communities where the majority will not sympathize with a Federal law's restrictions large numbers of Federal officers will be needed for its enforcement. The central Government now has very wide war powers. When peace comes these must end, if the republic is to be preserved...
...created for the purpose, shall always be able through Federal detectives and policemen to reach into every hamlet, and to every ward, and to every purlieu of a large city, and use the leverage of an intermittently lax and strict enforcement of the law against would-be dealers in liquor and their patrons, he will wield a sinister power, prospect of which should make anxious the friends of free constitutional government...
...there is liquor in the Capitol . . . a waiter was walking across the floor of the Senate restaurant and he dropped a bottle of Scotch whisky...
Then the Smith program was repeated: 1) A "scientific" redefinition of the word "intoxicating" in the Amendment; 2) modification of the alcoholic percentage fixed by the Volstead Act; 3) amendment of the Amendment to return the whole liquor question to the States...
Seat. Samuel Ungerleider, 43, like many young Hungarian Jews who migrated to the U. S. before the War, went first into the liquor business here, at Wheeling, W. Va., and Bridgeport, Ohio. In 1920 he organized his brokerage and investment banking firm at Cleveland. Last week he sold for a nominal sum his seat on the New York Stock Exchange to Emil Jay Roth of Cleveland, his nephew. Tyro member Roth was 21 last July 4, and is the youngest member ever admitted to the New York exchange...