Word: prohibitionâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Prohibition???"A treaty is being negotiated with Great Britain with respect to the right of search of hovering vessels. To prevent smuggling, the Coast Guard should be greatly strengthened and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic. With this action on the part of the national Government and the cooperation which is usually rendered by municipal and State authorities, Prohibition should be made effective...
...anthracite coal situation (TIME, Aug. 6), the World Court, the railroads, immigration, the twelve-hour day, prohibition???any of these may arouse the new President to action. Without altering greatly President Harding's course, Mr. Coolidge may, by exercising less of a spirit of compromise or conciliation and by a more vigorous championing of his beliefs, change the course of any one problem, upset the calculations of politicians. Political observers incline to the opinion that he is capable of just such action...