Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinction between buyer and seller may appear illogical, but the exemption of the liquor purchaser was not made carelessly, inadvertently. In 1918. when Prohibition enactment was being debated, Senator Hardwick of Georgia frightened Drys by proposing that pending liquor legislation should prohibit the purchase and use of intoxicants as well as their sale and transportation. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, father of the 18th Amendment, urgently explained that the Amendment, by prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, possession and sale of liquor, contained enough provisions to stamp out the liquor traffic. If no liquor were available, there would be none...
...Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska...
...Roosevelt contributed to the fitness of things by dancing a native danza with Senator Antonio R. Barcelo, political strong man. Also, the new Governor stood up, grinning, for ''La Borinquena," unofficial island anthem, as well as for "The Star Spangled Banner...
West Point, the locality, was well known as a site of extreme importance long before West Point, the Military Academy replaced with its buildings of instruction the forts and bastions of defense. The name West Point was first brought before the public eye when, in 1776, the realization came both to the Colonists and to the British Chief Staff that a strategical control of the Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts...
...General Arnold took command of West Point at his own request. The story of his treachery is too well known to be repeated. An interesting sequel however tells of Confrere Andre's storage in a dungeon of the Fort these after his capture...