Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appalling picture of commonwealths flouted by the friends of liquor, the Federal Constitution flagrantly violated and our national flag daily defied, which we see on every hand, does not mean that the patriotic friends of sobriety cannot ultimately win. ... I propose a rum-proof, booze-tight, clean-up program...
...Ninth: Employ Navy and Army, if necessary, to stop the debauching of American shores by rum-runners, domestic and foreign...
Sued for divorce. Jose Baccardi, " Cuban rum king," by Senora Martha Durand Baccardi, in Manhattan. She charged nonsupport, and added that he " did nothing but drink . . . his own liquor. . . . When he was tired of that he would go to sleep...
John Bull, whom Secretary Hughes has been trying to persuade to let us extend our property rights nine miles further to seaward to prevent rum-running, sent a reply to the State Department. The text of the note was not made public and will not be until the matter is closed. But the State Department let it be known that the reply was "not sympathetic...
...Secretary Hughes had proposed to several nations that the search and seizure limit for rum ships be extended from three miles to twelve miles from the U. S. coast. The other nations tacitly agreed that Great Britain should set the pace in the matter. This was agreeable to the State Department because no arrangement can be satisfactory without Great Britain's participation...