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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Federal Government was last week drafting a drastic industrial code to control distilleries until such time as Congress acts on the problem (see p. 53), State governments throughout the land were fussing and fiddling with their own regulations for local sale and consumption. Ten have already decided when & why & how drinks may be served (see box). Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Massachusetts had barely a week left before Repeal to make up their minds what...
What Atholl had done-no crime in the eyes of sportsmen or charitarians-was to offer for sale through agents 1,000,000 tickets at ten shillings each which the public was asked to buy blind (TIME, Nov. 13). So great is the name of Atholl that 304,808 tickets were sold on the Duke's terms, everyone being sure he would do the right thing. With ?152,404 ($736,700) in hand Atholl retired to his castle where, as he said, "Ideas come to me from Heaven." The first idea was to pay the expenses of the ticket...
...believe that it should be kept away from the neighborhood of the University. "The proprietor should not neglect to ascertain the age of his customer," explained Mr. Dever. "It is like selling 'dirty' books; the storekeeper has his conscience for his judge as to whether he should make the sale or not. He must remember the responsibility that is put into his hands, and also that his license can be immediately revoked if he breaks...
...mechanical or professionally trained. There was a respectable crowd in attendance--compared with the Georgia game one might say small, but respectable, so far as manners in public are concerned. It was a dark and rainy afternoon, but the "rooting" made up for the lack of seats for sale at a premium. Other sports will follow during the year, each University holding league House and College tournaments and matching its winning team against the other's. It is an interesting innovation -- filled with possibilities not only for more competition between the two universities, but sport for sport's sake, which...
...eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should prohibit the sale of liquor of any kind outside of federal dispensaries and restaurants. In the beginning, those restaurants may seem to be little more than dining saloons, and there will probably be drunkenness and some measure of public vice carried on in them...