Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular decision; they would institute liquor shops which would sell at the beginning beer within the two per cent limit. They would then, as soon as these shops had become established, begin to sell strong beers under two per cent labels. It was notorious that they would even sell whiskey and wine under these two per cent labels. The purpose was to bring into contempt all prohibition legislation and to nullify the wishes of the people concerned...
...certain paragrapher has aptly pointed out that the problem of "concurrent legislation" resolves itself into the question whether "concurrent" implies a blending together, as with gin and vermouth, or one sovereign, as with whiskey and soda. A New Jersey court has decided in favor of whiskey and soda, and Governor Coolidge, with a firmness that brings a tear to dry eyes, and a lump to dry throats, yet withal wisely, has declined to dissent from the opinion...
...view of what the Eighteenth Amendment says? Are the states' laws on the subject constitutional with respect to either or both? If not, which? Does "concurrent jurisdiction" mean literally "running together"--like the blending of gin and vermouth? Or does it mean acting together, but one sovereign, like whiskey and soda? As far as we are able to see, "Nobody knows--and nobody seems to care." All we may do is to be philosophical like the valet, who tried to comfort his master in an agony of gout with the words: "It's not your fault, sir. You really cawn...