Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Robinson's other argument to leave liquor control exclusively to the States started a swirling debate around the ghost of the saloon. His deep chest heaving, Senator Robinson summed up after Senators Borah, Glass, Steiwer and Capper had been heard...
...Everybody condemns the saloon. I'm no champion of it and never have been. I have submerged my personal views, believing it my duty to take this course. . . . If liquor is to be sold at all, it must be sold either in saloons or State agencies and I don't think Congress ought to be committed to the policy that we're choosing permanently between those agencies. . . . The States have just as much ability to handle this question as Congress. . . . There is no ideal way of dealing with the liquor problem. We've been looking...
Federal control over the saloon went...
Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife...
Continuing his remarks, Mr. Davis said that the wets have never been in the open. "We have nothing to hide," he asserted. "Have the wets given us any guarantees that the saloon will not return? The average voter should know in advance exactly what effect the repeal of Prohibition will have on his community; he must know what he will get in exchange for repeal. For us the fight has just begun...