Word: prohibition
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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...
Many a modern parent is beset by the problem of the daily newspaper. The parent cannot re-edit the newspaper-he must prohibit it for his children, in toto if at all. But classic literature can be edited-although as to how it shall be edited parents violently disagree. Discussion now turns chiefly on the following examples of Sunday School editing...
...finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including his brother, from voting for the merger), and F. & R. Lazarus & Co. (Columbus and Cincinnati-Founded in 1851). Combined annual sales will total...
...Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its memberselect, meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated, from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...
...leading radio manufacturers has just issued an appeal through the newspapers urging the public to protest against the plan to prohibit broadcasting of professional boxing matches and baseball games, which is being seriously considered by the magnates of these sports. Apart from the loss of enjoyment to thousands of people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders...