Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...societies declared their faith in prohibition. Mayor Dever rushed down from Chicago to deny testimony given by a Federal attorney that Chicago was full of bootlegging and to wipe out "a blot on the fair name of his city." Even some Yale students were called to testify to the result of a vote taken in the University in which students and faculty voted 4 to 1 for modification of prohibition, and declared that students got just as much liquor now as ever before. Professor Irving Fisher of the University denied that there was as much drinking at the University...
...when it was all over, the net result of the investigation was to furnish just a little more ammunition for Wets and Drys alike and to prepare the way for political campaigns on the prohibition issue, which are apparently in the making in Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York...
...proposed deterrent should be known by all to be certain to follow immediately on any disregard of a warning given, and it should be sufficiently drastic to strike the imagination of even the dullwitted. If it became known that all this would be the inevitable result of parenthood under these conditions, a fall would take place in the birth rate of all this section of the less fit, with great beneficial results, both immediate and racial...
...Entirely apart from the immorality of putting human lives to the hazard of modern war where the sole issue is a pecuniary claim, there is a conclusive practical reason against such a course, in that war in the great majority of cases does not, and cannot accomplish the desired result. Loans are made to foreign governments in reliance primarily upon the good faith of those governments...
...politics. No mean orator himself, Mr. Frankau introduces a fascinating Jewish playwright to wax eloquently Tory. Yet, in spite of all this, the author seems to have become so absorbed by John Masterson and his unfortunate bride that as the story proceeds he forgets sociology and all such. The result is simply an unforgettable story of a good man's education in riches, passion, love...