Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, dry mecca. He made a speech He told the Chautauqua that bootlegging rested upon corruption of Government officials, that a major object of his regime was to purify the enforcement personnel. He also stated that his greatest problem was the "market" the unescapable fact that some people wanted. liquor and would pay money...
...wanted to know why a member had to pay $3 for entertaining a friend at dinner. It was pointed out to him that his colleagues could have dined on "sausages and mash" for 25?. He then charged that the price of food was sacrificed to the supply of cheap liquor. This, too, was easily disproved. It is true that Parliamentarians do not drink nearly as much as they used to during the past century when everybody drank and was drunk, but whatever profit is made out of liquid refreshments in the restaurant is immediately applied to reduce the cost...
...asked General Lincoln C. Andrews (see PROHIBITION) to clean up the Massachusetts coast was based on the facts 1) that some vessels which were observed on the bay might have been rum runners, 2) in a cottage near White Court previous to the President's arrival, a liquor cache had been discovered. The President denied that he had made any request of General Andrews...
...Federal activities will be largely confined to the major sources of bootleg liquor- ignooring minor Violations, to stop the sources of supply; "importation, diversion of legitimately manufactured alcohol, illigitimate manufacture and transportation of alcohol and alcoholic beverages ... the bootleg industry...
...produced a report on smelting and assaying which was a masterpiece of detail; he guided Sweden in its currency policy, dealt with the balance of trade and the liquor laws, ancestored all Scandinavian geologists, arrived at the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of planets long before Kant and LaPlace, was an original chemist, sketched a flying machine...