Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much has the property once occupied by McGovern's saloon on Main Street increased in value since Prohibition...
...wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side of the fam ily. ... As you know I come from a Prohibition state and I am supposed to be a prohibitionist but I am about as loyal to the Prohibition element as some of these Southern Democrats are to the Democratic party. . . . While I find...
...legality of the sale of unfermented grape juice was admitted by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. But he was much less sure that Senator Gould had not violated the Volstead Act by making it into wine under the company's instructions, though it is not the Prohibition Unit's policy to raid winemakers' homes where no sale has occurred. Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League repudiated the Maine Senator as a Dry, characterized him as a "Wet-Wet," predicted his defeat this fall...
...Prohibition." To collect and disseminate "the facts" Congress had appropriated $50,000. To Miss Anna B. Sutter, Chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Division of Statistics and Education, fell this money and she it was who prepared a course of Prohibition instruction to be placed in all schools. Much to Miss Sutler's chagrin the Government's venture into pedagogy was short-lived...
Races. The territory's total population is now some 350,000. Caucasians, though constituting only one-tenth of the populace, dominate. There is no "race problem," largely because there has been much intermarriage and "the colors have run." Besides 20,000 Hawaiian full-bloods there are some 25,000 half-castes. Largest pure racial group are 135,000 Japanese, of whom 83,000 are U. S. citizens. Japan once planned to annex Hawaii by intensive colonization, but U. S. immigration laws checked that. In Hawaii, the Japanese are called "the Jews of the Pacific" because of their ability, eagerness, tenacity...