Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude of the brewers themselves. The early state wide prohibition laws quite generally permitted the manufacture and sale of beer containing alcohol up to two per cent. The brewers who, in fact controlled in one way or another a great part of the saloons, were determined that they would obey no prohibition law whatever. Accordingly they followed the policy systematically year after year of trying to override the wishes of the people in the dry towns, cities and states. After a community or state voted dry, the wet interests would systematically seek to defeat the popular decision; they would institute...
...France, on trial on the charge of conspiracy against his country in time of war is the latest attempt to punish a man whose political career has been so shadowy as to excite grave suspicion, but who, up to the present time, has always been clever enough to obey the letter, while manifestly violating the spirit, of the law. That M. Caillaux is guilty there seems little doubt, but whether his guilt can be proved is quite another consideration...