Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blot on the fair name of his city." Even some Yale students were called to testify to the result of a vote taken in the University in which students and faculty voted 4 to 1 for modification of prohibition, and declared that students got just as much liquor now as ever before. Professor Irving Fisher of the University denied that there was as much drinking at the University now as formerly...
...Borah: "The Senator has stated the issue. Let us argue it. The Senator has stated that the issue is that they propose to have what they want with reference to intoxicating liquor...
...further established himself as a vigorous enforcer by sending to Congress a prepared statement promising virtual extinction of present liquor supply if the $3,000,000 additional requests by President Coolidge were granted. And he outlined plans for a border patrol of 12 000 men to keep out Canadian liquor...
...understand you, General, your opinion is this, that particularly in view of the bad quality of hard liquor that is now sold in this country, if beer, healthful beer, could be manufactured, a beer that is non-intoxicating in fact to the average person, and distributed by the Government under regulation, not allowed to be sold in saloons or public places, or drunk upon the premises, the people would take to the drinking of that sort of beverage instead of drinking the vile hard liquor that we now have, and that it would promote temperance and would...
...administration of the liquor laws should be taken out of the hands of Secretary Mellon, but we can't possibly expect that to be done, unless we have a Democratic congress...