Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition is no more an interference with liberty, than is the supervision of the distribution of drugs and narcotics, or the control of prostitution. As a matter of fact, few people care for liberty as such; all the average man eares for is freedom to do what he wants to do. If he doesn't care for narcotics, he does not look upon control of them as an intringement of his rights...
...Prohibition is not a matter which primarily concerns an institution like Harvard," said Max Habicht yesterday in an interview on this subject. "Harvard students when they vote on the issue in the CRIMSON poll on Monday should bear this fact in mind. It matters very little whether the sale of alcoholic liquor is permitted here or not. Students can get it anyway, and also the student does not feel the financial drain and bad moral effect of drinking as much as the average laborer...
...Although I believe that Prohibition has benefited the country a great deal and given it many advantages over non-prohibition countries, there is evidently something wrong with the system employed. I think that the educational side of the matter has been too much neglected. At present Prohibition enforcement is attempted entirely by legal means, and the enforcement is thus not complete. You cannot force the general public to obey a law while many of them are not convinced of its value...
...Neither is it a Communist uprising, as some have tried to make it appear. Weisbord is, as a matter of fact, a member of the Communist party, but all shades of advanced, or, if you will, radical opinion are represented in the strike. Socialists of the old line, of whom the Communists are generally distrustful, have spoken from the same platform with Weisbord. All groups are working together, and the system and smoothness with which things are being done at Passaic is nothing short of marvelous...
...fine sight," continued Mr. Coleman growing more and more enthusiastic, "to watch groups of people marching up and down the streets, singing and cheering; and to see the men and women standing in the picket lines. As a matter of fact, the women do best in the lines, much better than the men, and if the strike is won, as it undoubtedly will be, it will be as a result of the efforts and bravery of the women...