Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing in the 18th Amendment or the Volstead Act to prevent any thirsty U. S. citizen from buying a drink. 'Leggers and speakeasy proprietors are lawbreakers only because they sell liquor and transport it. Their customers may be scofflaws but they are not criminals...
...distinction between buyer and seller may appear illogical, but the exemption of the liquor purchaser was not made carelessly, inadvertently. In 1918. when Prohibition enactment was being debated, Senator Hardwick of Georgia frightened Drys by proposing that pending liquor legislation should prohibit the purchase and use of intoxicants as well as their sale and transportation. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, father of the 18th Amendment, urgently explained that the Amendment, by prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, possession and sale of liquor, contained enough provisions to stamp out the liquor traffic. If no liquor were available, there would be none...
Last week, however, Senator Sheppard changed part of his mind. He still had no thought of trying to legislate against the use of liquor. But he did want to amend the Volstead Act to make the buyer of liquor equally guilty with the seller...
Growth in favorable sentiment toward Prohibition, said Senator Sheppard, had made possible this extension of the Volstead Act. Furthermore, the Senator was annoyed by last fortnight's decision in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, clearly exculpating a purchaser of liquor from any guilt in the transportation of what he had bought (TIME, Oct. 14). Senator Sheppard therefore offered to the Senate an amendment adding purchase to manufacture, transportation, possession, sale and other activities forbidden under the Volstead...
...corruption" are favorite missiles of contending candidates. Last week in polyglot, steelmaking northern Indiana, candidates for the coming election were given charged grenades to throw. A Federal "cleanup" campaign produced grand jury indictments against 299 residents of East Chicago, Gary, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, on charges of violating liquor, white slave, narcotic and automobile theft laws. In East Chicago, Mayor Raleigh P. Hale, Republican candidate for reelection, and the Chiefs of Police and Detectives were all arrested for multifarious violations of Prohibition laws...