Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass several important non-partisan bills: the Second Deficiency bill, carrying funds of $93,700,000 necessary to maintain part of the army and other Government organizations; the Public Buildings bill carrying $125,000,000; the Alien Property Claims bill; the Disabled Emergency Officers Retirement bill; the Medicinal Liquor bill. (Although the Administration may be embarrassed by the lack of funds in some departments, it can, by shrewd management, make 95% of the year's appropriations run the Government until the 70th Congress meets in December...
...Missouri William T. Findly, secretary of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, told businessmen that the only way to get action out of the state legislature was to send a "gladhander with a copperlined stomach" to drink the lawmakers' liquor. Twenty-four hours later, Mr. Findly was ousted from the Chamber of Commerce...
...this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn't have no subways. They went down in the 'bowels of the earth' and dug 'em out. Now they have gone to Italy and drink wine for 15 cents a gallon while we pay $5.00 a quart for rotten liquor...
...their appearance on the street, or afforded them pleasure in secret brutal contests. . . . When we consider the morbid state of mind possessed by those collegians who night after night sat before the footlights of the notorious Soldene, and rose after each act in a body to resort to a liquor saloon near by, we are not surprised at other (perhaps but little lower) exhibitions of a mind thoroughly imbued with an immoral and contaminating influence...
...intentions but also for the minds of the gang politicians of Pennsylvania. . . . Any machine must include a body of the lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest citizens who would otherwise destroy them...