Word: prohibitional
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...their selection by State Legislatures; exactly as the 16th Amendment for an income tax superseded the constitutional limitation of direct taxes based on population. The new amendment would have to provide that States that wanted to be Wet might be Wet, regardless of the 18th Amendment, but would prohibit them from legalizing the saloon. Therefore a Wet State would probably have to set up a State liquor monopoly and keep the business out of private hands for private profit. Likewise the Federal Government would reserve the power to police Dry States and control interstate liquor shipments. Under such an amendment...
...Beer in Colombia," explained a Government spokesman, "is considered a perfectly natural drink which it would be unwise to prohibit...
Good news for the U. S. oil industry came from Washington last week. The Supreme Court upheld Oklahoma's rigid proration law. Leaders thought that with the assurance of this decision behind them other States may act to prohibit "physical as well as economic waste...
Mayor Key first got into trouble with prohibitors when, junketing through France with other U. S. mayors last spring, he publicly opined that Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure." The Greater Atlanta Prohibition & Law Enforcement League began to circulate a petition for a special election to oust him. Though the League could not get one-third of the signatures required for a recall vote, Mayor Key had to withdraw from his men's Bible class at Grace Methodist Church. Thereupon he began a non-denominatiorial Bible class in a theatre where he was free...
...Concerning apportionment of Representatives: concerning compensation to members of Congress (1789); forfeiture of citizenship by acceptance of foreign titles or other honor (1810); Corwin Amendment to prohibit the Constitution from interfering with slavery in the States (1861); Child Labor...