Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edwin H. Hughes, Methodist Bishop of Chicago: "My great-grandfather was taught alcohol was a food, my grandfather was taught it was a beverage, my father was taught it was a stimulant, but I was taught alcohol was a poison. It is time we taught our children that intoxicating liquor was born in Hell and we mean to keep it there...
...have gone beyond the question as to what we think about the liquor traffic or about Prohibition. We are face to face with the problem as to whether, when, through the proper use of all the legislative processes known to our republic, we have achieved a signal victory over a great evil, we are to be deterred from the enjoyment of that victory by an unscrupulous minority whose one slogan is 'You can't enforce that...
Andrew Volstead declared that, although it is not generally known, there is a penalty of 90 days in jail for buying illicit liquor, and two years for a second offense...
...United States Lines to agree to these terms, but that an agreement was finally made that the United States Lines should carry 4,500 of the legionnaires on the President Harding, President Roosevelt, Republic and America. Any number over that will have to travel on foreign ships, on which liquor is sold...
Rear Admiral Billard has denied that the Coast Guard was charged with enforcing the prohibition laws. "Only a small part of prohibition enforcement falls upon our men," the Commandant said. "The Coast Guard is charged with the duty of preventing the smuggling of intoxicating liquor into the United States from the sea, but of course this is not enough to stop drinking in the United States...