Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quickly became obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist." Any U. S. citizen who found himself in Ontario and considered himself to be a Canadian tourist could secure a tourist permit and quaff beer, wine, ale, whiskey, champagne, gin, in any legal "residence," including his hotel room...
...procured the needed whiskey from friends who were secretly preserving it for just such anticipated emergencies in their own households, risking all the while discovery and imprisonment because of such mere possession...
...then [continued the Attorney General's letter] in precisely the same situation as my wife and I were in just a year earlier when whiskey was prescribed in the cases of three or four children who were near death from typhoid fever and pneumonia. Of one of them it may be said with certainty that he could not have recovered without the use of this medicine...
...Shumaker said that where state laws permitted prescription sales of whiskey, nearly all of whiskey so sold was for bootleg purposes; that whiskey possesses no medicinal qualities not possessed by grain alcohol and that grain alcohol was obtainable on prescription; that "we must bring about a better enforcement of the liquor law before we start tearing it down...
...Altvater said: "If I had a physician who prescribed whiskey, I would waste no time in changing my physician...