Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ratified a treaty with Great Britain to give British vessels the right to bring liquor into American ports under seal in exchange for the privilege of seizing rum runners anywhere within "an hour's sailing distance of our shores" (see Page...
...three hours the Senate debated behind closed doors. Then a vote was taken-61 to 7, in favor of the treaty which will permit British ships to bring liquor into American ports under seal in exchange for which American officers may seize British rum smugglers within an hour's sail of our coast...
...Broderick Hartwell, Briton, who has been offering his countrymen 20 per cent profit every. 60 days in his project of bringing rum to America, was outdone by a Scotsman, one Nicholson, who offered 25 per cent re-turn for the same period from a similar enterprise. A Liberal in Parliament called this a "blackguardly prostitution of the British flag...
...Rum Running. He was glad that the treaty to put an end to rum running had been successfully negotiated. Nothing, he said, had humiliated him more than to have to go to the State Department, week after week, to request the release of some wretched schooner, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly flying the British flag...
...last official act of Sir Auckland Geddes, retiring British Ambassador, before sailing for home last week, was to sign with Secretary Hughes the so-called "Rum pact." Its chief provisions...