Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doing the city wide bombing, Chief of Police Hughes could only guess, but doubtless it was some liquor and gambling racketeers who resented having the most criminal city in the U. S. publicized as a sudden convert to law & order. The bombers' technique appeared to derive from a style of bombing inaugurated last autumn by the Chicago Association of Candy Jobbers, whose methodical representatives found little to deter them from pitching "pineapples" (hand grenades) into independent goody factories...
...Guardia: "No. I do not yield to the gentleman from Florida. Florida is so happily situated near the West Indies that you can get all the pure liquor you want and it is hypocritical to take any stand as to law enforcement...
...about $28,000,000-13 millions for the Prohibition Unit, 15 millions for the U. S. Coast Guard. During the debate, Representative Mead had produced figures snowing that, while spending some 26 millions to make the U. S. dry last year, U. S. citizens spent some 26 millions importing liquor from Canada...
...long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...
...Conventions. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman gave out a portentous announcement: "The conventions shall be Dry!" That is, undercover agents, already at work, will try to intimidate such liquor operators as have not already gotten their shipments through to Houston and Kansas City from Mexico, Cuba, Canada. Naturally enough, the Houston convention will receive the most attention, not solely because it is Democratic but because it is so near a border and because Texas has always out-thirsted Kansas. It is not likely, however, that the persons, baggage or hotel rooms...