The Rise and Fall of Prohibition / The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the / Volstead Act Have Done to the United States PDF
Contents The phenomenon of Prohibition -- Our great unhappiness -- Our endless chain of laws -- Too much "Verboten" -- Making the world safe for de-mockery-cy -- The infamous Volstead Act -- A triumvirate against Prohibition -- "The fear for thee, my country" -- Drying up the ocean -- The Mullan-Gage Law, the Van Ness Act and the Hobert Act -- Bootlegging and graft -- "Don't joke about Prohibition...

Charles Hanson Towne - The Rise and Fall of Prohibition / The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the / Volstead Act Have Done to the United States

The Rise and Fall of Prohibition / The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the / Volstead Act Have Done to the United States

Charles Hanson Towne

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The phenomenon of Prohibition -- Our great unhappiness -- Our endless chain of laws -- Too much "Verboten" -- Making the world safe for de-mockery-cy -- The infamous Volstead Act -- A triumvirate against Prohibition -- "The fear for thee, my country" -- Drying up the ocean -- The Mullan-Gage Law, the Van Ness Act and the Hobert Act -- Bootlegging and graft -- "Don't joke about Prohibition" -- How Canada has solved the liquor problem -- Crime and drunkenness -- The literary digest's canvass -- Literature and Prohibition -- America today -- Other reforms -- Is Europe going dry? -- What are we going to do about it?

 

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