Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be at work to enable the fundamental difficulties to be reached. This it seems clear, can only be done by a revision of the amendment... by so redrawing the amendment as, on the one hand, to preserve federal control and a check upon bringing back of the saloon anywhere, and, on the other hand, to allow of an effective control adapted to local conditions in places where, as things are, at least, it is futile to seek a nationally enforced general abstinence...
...Federal control of what had become a nation-wide traffic and abolition of the saloon are great steps forward which should be maintained... Mr. Anderson has proposed a well-thought-out plan, based on study of systems of liquor control and their operation. His plan deserves careful consideration as the best and most complete plan which has been brought to our attention. This or some like plan for adapting national control to local conditions may well be the next forward step...
...weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence in repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League said he was "threshing old straw." Dry Congressmen declared that he was trying to curry political favor-a declaration followed immediately by reports that New Jersey Republicans were already considering him as a candidate for governor. Judge Clark promptly declared he would "not consider" any political offers. Enforcement. Prohibition...
...Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth, and a literal Lorelei. Years ago, returning to Britain from Australia, Mrs. Freeman-Thomas, as she then was, gave a large dinner party in the saloon of the P & O liner Clima, which was eagerly attended by the captain, chief officer and most of the staff. While Mrs. Freeman-Thomas dimpled her prettiest, and the bridge was left to the tender mercies of one near-sighted quartermaster, the Clima ran on the rocks. After due investigation...
...SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version...