Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immense majority of U. S. citizens, alcohol denotes either that which is shudderingly referred to as Demon Rum or affectionately described as John Barleycorn. Yet, despite the tremendous amount of advertising which alcohol as a beverage has immemorially received, its use for industrial (i. e., non-beverage) purposes has been and remains one of its vitally important functions. True, last week's formation of General Industrial Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League...
...same time, the Canadian Gov ernment permitted U. S. agents to stand on the Windsor, Ont., liquor export docks as a means of checking rum-running to Detroit, which cut the flow to" the low ebb of 500 cases per day. This, Canada considered, was part of "neighborly co operation," whereas the I'm Alone case involved a major international principle...
...Louisiana shore under U. S. Coast Guard gunfire last fortnight, inter- national law experts were ready to stand up and cheer with delight (TIME, April 1). Here was a case to argue endlessly. It bristled with fine points, with nice distinctions. Many an analogy was drawn between rum-running in 1929 and African slave-running...
...down by gunfire from the cutter Dexter. The man killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...
Article 2 of the Anglo-American rum treaty declares that the U.S. rights of search and seizure of British vessels "shall not be exercised at a greater distance from the coast of the U.S. . . . than can be traversed in one hour by the vessel suspected.'' Common practice has made this treaty-line twelve miles offshore...