Word: picayunish
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...people sentenced for violating the law, but a decrease in the consumption of intoxicating liquor in the U. S. ... I shall direct the agencies against commercial violations of the law. ... I will not have our agencies following the course of least resistance and wasting their time upon pitiful, picayunish, non-commercial cases. I think the Prohibition laws can be successfully enforced against commercial operations. ... I disapprove sensational methods. ... I do not propose to busy myself with the details of this Bureau so that I will not have opportunity to see, to hear and to think...