Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dissatisfied with this declaration, Senator Bingham produced for the extreme Wets a minority report calling for immediate repeal, with ratification also by State conventions and pledging the party's "best efforts" to "promote temperance, abolish the saloon, whether open or concealed, and bring the liquor traffic under complete public supervision and control...
States to deal with the problem as their citizens may determine but subject always to the power of the Federal Government to protect those States where Prohibition may exist and safeguard our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon...
...Legislatures; exactly as the 16th Amendment for an income tax superseded the constitutional limitation of direct taxes based on population. The new amendment would have to provide that States that wanted to be Wet might be Wet, regardless of the 18th Amendment, but would prohibit them from legalizing the saloon. Therefore a Wet State would probably have to set up a State liquor monopoly and keep the business out of private hands for private profit. Likewise the Federal Government would reserve the power to police Dry States and control interstate liquor shipments. Under such an amendment the Federal Government...
...Chicago, trying to recover seized property, City Sealer Joe Grein was asked whether he had once run a saloon. Said he: "I once conducted a buffet." He was asked whether people rate the two identical. Said he: "Some people do, but not old Joe Grein...
...much lighter vein wrote "Congressman" Westbrook Pegler, whose sport colyum is syndicated through the Tribune: "I do not favor the return of the old saloon. Too many of our citizens owed bills in the old saloons, and if the saloons came back they would be subject to annoyance...