Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelfth agreement between the U. S. and a foreign nation to combat liquor smuggling, and thus bolster up the Volstead Act, was reached last week when Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, recently arrived Spanish Ambassador, exchanged solemn pacts. Similar agreements are now in force with Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Sweden. Treaties are pending with Belgium and France...
...liquor distilled from ground corn...
...Prohibition referendums were held in eight states. Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin voted for modification of the liquor laws. In New York particularly the Wet majority was overwhelming-more than three to one. The Drys were successful in California, Colorado, Missouri. The result in Missouri is meaningless because the Wets had repudiated their referendum proposal before election...
...modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself, having polled a vote double that of her two opponents...
Neither myself, my husband, nor our son has touched liquor since the law became effective. But that does not mean we would not welcome the day when actually non-intoxicating beverages could be brought into our own home without fear of breaking some...