Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibition, lodged in the Constitution, as a knife in the back of the A. E. F. . . . I say to my fellow members of the American Legion that you cannot salute your flag with a clear conscience until Al Capone is knocked off the throne erected by the Anti-Saloon League. I ... refuse to pay homage to this Chicago monarch. He has neither money enough nor enough lead to make me change my mind. By this plurality of one vote, I make myself the leader opposing the existing gunman autocracy in the United States. . . . [The Anti-Saloon League attempts to justify...
...have not recognized as a fact for years. But the facts were stated fairly for the first time by an official body. Reviewing a decade of Prohibition they found: 1) Enforcement got off to a bad start which has crippled it ever since. 2) Reform organizations like the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. abandoned all efforts to win public support by education and tolerance. 3) "Bribery, extortion, theft, conspiracy, perjury, forgery" among enforcement agents gave the 18th Amendment an irreparably bad name. 4) Without more public support Federal enforcement ? so far a failure...
Knocked Down. The Commission set up and knocked down various substitutes for Prohibition-as-is. Repeal of the 18th Amendment would be a "backward step" to re-admit the saloon. To permit State option would be nullification. Beer of 2.75% would satisfy nobody who "has developed a taste for intoxicating beverages." Government sale would not be "expedient...
...decrease on that account. There is a thoroughly organized business which replaces its retail selling agencies as fast as they are discovered and closed up. . . . Probably a much greater number of those who patronize speakeasies can afford to do so than was true in the case of the saloon. Thus the closing of the saloon has been a gain even if speakeasies abound...
...Restoration in any manner of the legalized saloon...