Prohibiting Intoxicating Beverages: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session, on the Bills to Prohibit the Liquor Traffic and to Provide for the Enforcement of Such Prohibition and the War Prohibition Act ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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... one who has tasted meal water and who has not performed a large half day's work in the trenches , can have no concept how utterly insipid and distasteful it is to workmen . On buildings in course of construction you will find the same ...
... one who has tasted meal water and who has not performed a large half day's work in the trenches , can have no concept how utterly insipid and distasteful it is to workmen . On buildings in course of construction you will find the same ...
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... one court , and that will be the Supreme Court of the United States ; and if they settled it once that would end it ... half a barrel of whisky and not be drunk ? Mr. WOLL . I do not assume anything like that . I assume that Congress ...
... one court , and that will be the Supreme Court of the United States ; and if they settled it once that would end it ... half a barrel of whisky and not be drunk ? Mr. WOLL . I do not assume anything like that . I assume that Congress ...
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... one - half of 1 per cent of alcoholic con- tents ; so that that is an attempt , is it not , to fix the amount of alcohol ? Mr. WOLL . If such legislation as that is proposed , according to the Senator , there , I assume that it would ...
... one - half of 1 per cent of alcoholic con- tents ; so that that is an attempt , is it not , to fix the amount of alcohol ? Mr. WOLL . If such legislation as that is proposed , according to the Senator , there , I assume that it would ...
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... one - half of 1 per cent . Now , if you can do that you can fix it at 23 per cent . Senator NORRIS . I admit that ; but if you can fix it at 23 per cent you can fix it at 10 per cent , or any other per cent . Senator FALL . Exactly ...
... one - half of 1 per cent . Now , if you can do that you can fix it at 23 per cent . Senator NORRIS . I admit that ; but if you can fix it at 23 per cent you can fix it at 10 per cent , or any other per cent . Senator FALL . Exactly ...
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... one - half of 1 per cent of alcohol by volume , and compounds whether proprietary , patented or not , which are ... one - half of 1 per cent of alcohol or more by volume at 60 ° F. , or any other liquids or liquors manufactured or sold ...
... one - half of 1 per cent of alcohol by volume , and compounds whether proprietary , patented or not , which are ... one - half of 1 per cent of alcohol or more by volume at 60 ° F. , or any other liquids or liquors manufactured or sold ...
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Page 289 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York.
Page 344 - State where he may be found, and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Page 60 - In other words, the exceptional nature of the subject here regulated is the basis upon which the exceptional power exerted must rest, and affords no ground for any fear that such power may be constitutionally extended to things which it may not, consistently with the guaranties of the Constitution, embrace.
Page 274 - Sciences, edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Diagnosis, in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia...
Page 126 - President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventyfive per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code...
Page 66 - ... or own, keep, or be in any way concerned, engaged or employed in owning or keeping any intoxicating liquor with intent to violate any provision of this chapter, or authorize or permit the same to be done...
Page 125 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 127 - war prohibition act" used in this act shall mean the provisions of any act or acts prohibiting the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors until the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termination of demobilization, the date of which shall be determined and proclaimed by the President of the United States.
Page 73 - ... weak, the old and the young, the well and the sick; and it is intended that if any flour, because of any added poisonous or other deleterious ingredient, may possibly injure the health of any of these, it shall come within the ban of the statute. If it cannot by any possibility, when the facts are reasonably considered, injure the health of any consumer, such flour, though having a small addition of poisonous or deleterious ingredients, may not be condemned under the act.
Page 161 - liquor ' or the phrase ' intoxicating liquor ' shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whisky, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter, and wine, and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquor, liquids, and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented, or not, and by whatever name called, containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...