Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Being a man of impulses,* he recently began to look into certain publications of the Department of Agriculture. He found that a recipe prescribing whiskey, milk and eggs for cows' and horses' ailments, which was advised by the Department of Agriculture for 33 years, has been omitted since...
...Supreme Court hands down a decision by a five-to-four majority the scales of justice may well be said to hang by a hair. Such was the situation last week when the court of last resort upheld the provision of the Volstead Act which limits the amount of whiskey that physicians may prescribe to one pint every ten days. Paradoxically enough, this decision was written by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who often dissents from decisions restricting individual "liberty...
...Supreme Court's ruling put an end to a suit begun in 1922 in the lower Federal courts by Samuel W. Lambert, learned physician of Manhattan, who sought to enjoin the Prohibition Unit from enforcing the provision concerning whiskey prescriptions. Justice Brandeis' opinion was upheld by Chief Justice Taft and associate Justices Holmes, Sanford, Van Devanter...
Tough are the jaws of a rock crusher. They can masticate almost anything. Last week in Portland, Ore., they chewed up bottles containing $16,000 worth of liquor and roared contentedly as the stimulating fluid oozed forth. The whiskey, seized by the Government three years ago, had been the subject of a prolonged, legal fight. In the hour of triumph, the Women's Christian Temperance Union demanded a public doom for "the goods...
...death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally all alcohol sold should contain the lethal dose of so-called denaturant. How many juries could be found to send a man to the gallows for taking one drink of whiskey? . . . "Had the United States adopted Quebec's plan and price list on Jan. 1, 1920, we might have continued to drink alcohol as of yore, but in that event Uncle Sam would have accumulated the tidy profit of $7,108,000,000 in the seven years 1920-26 (sufficient...