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PREFACE TO THE "NOBLE EXPERIMENT" |
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PREFACE TO "PROHIBITION STILL AT ITS WORST" |
xxiii |
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INTRODUCTION |
xxvii |
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| I. |
AS TO NEED FOR RELAXATION? -14 |
3 |
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WET VIEW -8 |
3 |
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Starling's Conclusions |
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Danger Begins With Intemperance |
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Alcohol Causes Partial Paralysis |
6 |
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Artists Need No Alcohol |
7 |
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DRY VIEW -14 |
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Other Means of Relief |
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Mass Existence Transformed |
10 |
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Effect of Focusing Energy |
11 |
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How Nerves Are Relaxed |
12 |
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Hazarding New Habits |
13 |
| II. |
IN A HIGH-POWERED AGE? -36 |
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WET VIEW -26 |
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Prohibition Enforced by duPonts |
15 |
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Assents to Prohibition by Employers |
18 |
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Mr. duPont's Personal Payroll |
19 |
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Question of Drink Before Driving |
20 |
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Most Drinking Is After Working Hours |
21 |
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Drinker Escapes the Law |
22 |
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Mr. Raskob Notes Lack of Respect for Law |
23 |
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Pleads Personal Liberty |
24 |
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DRY VIEW -36 |
26 |
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Menace of the Moderate Drinker |
26 |
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Power of State to Prohibit |
28 |
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Not Practicable to Prohibit Drinking |
29 |
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Motor-Car Heads Support Prohibition |
30 |
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New Diversions Supplant the Saloon |
34 |
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Moderate-Drinking Driver Menaces Safety |
34 |
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| III. |
IN ITS EFFECTS ON YOUTH? -54 |
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WET VIEW -45 |
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Lessened First Convictions in Pre-Prohibition New York |
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Arrests of Minors in Washington, D. C. |
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Testimony of Salvation Army Officers |
41 |
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DRY VIEW -54 |
45 |
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Wet in Sentiment, Dry in Practice |
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Fewer Drunken Fathers and Criminal Youth |
48 |
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Drink Not a Problem in High Schools |
50 |
| IV. |
IN THE ATTITUDE OF PHYSICIANS? -71 |
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WET VIEW -61 |
56 |
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Physicians Equally Divided on Alcohol as Medicine |
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States Had Determined Question |
59 |
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Majority Opinion of Court Is Challenged |
60 |
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DRY VIEW -71 |
62 |
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Alcohol Discarded as a Stimulant |
63 |
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Few American Physicians Prescribe Spirits |
69 |
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IN DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM? -89 |
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WET VIEW -79 |
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World Death Rates from All Causes |
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Rising Death Rate from Alcoholism |
74 |
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Alcoholism Deaths in the United States and Canada |
75 |
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Poisoned Beverages Alleged Poisonous Quality of Liquor |
76 |
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DRY VIEW -89 |
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Aged Liquor More Poisonous Than Unaged |
81 |
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Death Rate Highest in Nullification Area |
82 |
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Alcoholic Mortality in the United States |
83 |
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Prohibition Lightens Mortality of Women and Children |
85 |
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Alcohol Characterized a Slower Age |
88 |
| VI. |
IN POVERTY, CRIME AND DISEASE? -106 |
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WET VIEW -96 |
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Reports of Increased Crime |
90 |
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Reports of Alcoholic Diseases |
93 |
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DRY VIEW -106 |
96 |
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Alcoholic Diseases Lessened for Nation as a Whole |
97 |
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Crime and the Eighteenth Amendment |
100 |
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Less Alcoholism, Less Poverty |
104 |
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IN INCREASED DRUNKENNESS? -128 |
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WET VIEW -114 |
107 |
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New York City Comparatively Sober |
108 |
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Increasing Addicts and Drunken Drivers |
112 |
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DRY VIEW -128 |
114 |
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Enormously Increased Price of Drinks |
116 |
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Increased Strictness of Police in Arrests for Intoxication |
119 |
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Drunken Drivers and Keeley Cures |
123 |
| VIII. |
IN EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRY -149 |
129 |
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WET VIEW -135 |
129 |
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Economic Gains Not Exactly Measurable |
130 |
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Economic Waste of Bootleg Traffic |
132 |
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Loss from Illegally Diverted Alcohol |
133 |
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DRY VIEW -149 |
135 |
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Six Billion Estimate Still Seems Safe |
136 |
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Recent Reports on "Moderate" Drinking |
139 |
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Alcohol Diversion Cut Off |
146 |
| IX. |
IN CORRUPTION OF PROHIBITION AGENTS? -166 |
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WET VIEW -156 |
150 |
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Record of Shootings and Corruption |
152 |
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Telephonic Eavesdropping |
154 |
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DRY VIEW -166 |
156 |
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Dry Unit Now Divorced from Politics |
161 |
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Old Prohibition Force Not All Bad |
164 |
| X. |
IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR ENFORCE- MENT? -183 |
167 |
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WET VIEW -175 |
170 |
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What Price Enforcement in New York? |
171 |
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Prohibition Agent's Experience |
173 |
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DRY VIEW -183 |
175 |
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Federal and Local "Passing of Buck" |
180 |
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The Promise of Changed Conditions |
182 |
| XI. |
IN SMUGGLING AND ILLEGAL DIVER- SION OF ALCOHOL? -197 |
184 |
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WET VIEW -190 |
184 |
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Detroit as a Port for Contraband |
185 |
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Estimated Liquor Turnover in Detroit |
189 |
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Rum Shipments into New York |
189 |
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DRY VIEW -197 |
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Dwindling of "Rum Row" |
193 |
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Commissioner Doran Testifies |
194 |
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Illicit Industry Now on Small Scale |
197 |
| XII. |
IN A TYPICALLY DRY STATE? -223 |
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WET VIEW -206 |
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Before Eighteenth Amendment, Dry North Carolina Did Well |
199 |
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Change for Worse After 1920 |
201 |
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Arrests for Intoxication in North Carolina |
202 |
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Amount Spent for Enforcement by the U. S. Prohibition Unit in North Carolina |
203 |
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Evidence of Increased Violations of Law |
204 |
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DRY VIEW -223 |
206 |
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Dry Majority Approves Results |
208 |
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Improvement of Gaston County |
210 |
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Phenomenal Statewide Progress |
212 |
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Records of Decreased Mortality |
216 |
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Total Mortality and Mortality from Certain Causes |
217 |
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Death Rates from Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of the Liver in the United States, North Carolina and Connecticut |
220 |
| XIII. |
IN A TYPICALLY WET STATE? -245 |
224 |
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WET VIEW -230 |
224 |
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State Opinion Rejects Prohibition |
225 |
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Hostile Courts and Juries |
227 |
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A Demoralizing Business |
229 |
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DRY VIEW -245 |
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Reduction in Death Rate |
231 |
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Statistical Exhibit--Connecticut |
237 |
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XIV. IN THE NATION'S CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL? -290 |
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WET VIEW -256 |
246 |
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Estimated Consumption--Year Ended June 30, 1926 (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) |
248 |
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Rejects "American Brewer" Estimate |
248 |
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Estimate Based on Hop Crop |
249 |
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The Hop Production (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) |
250 |
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Wine Consumption (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) |
252 |
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Adopts Buckner Figures as Basis |
252 |
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Production and Consumption of Distilled Spirits (Estimate by Hugh F. Fox) |
254 |
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A Post-Prohibition Increase |
255 |
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DRY VIEW -290 |
256 |
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1918 Not Normal Pre-Prohibition Year |
256 |
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Hops Used by Home-Brewers |
260 |
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Estimate of Probable Consumption of Malt Liquors in the United States |
265 |
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Estimate of Probable Consumption of Wine in the United States |
277 |
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Distilled Spirits |
278 |
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Estimated Total Consumption |
286 |
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Estimated Per Capita Consumption of Absolute Alcohol in Beer, Wine, Distilled Spirits, and Aggregate |
287 |
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Estimate of Aggregate Probable Consumption of Absolute Alcohol in Malt Liquors, Wines, and Distilled Spirits in the United States |
289 |
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XV. IN PUBLIC SENTIMENT? 291-307 |
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WET VIEW -296 |
291 |
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Hysteria Produced National Prohibition? |
292 |
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State Referenda |
293 |
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Wet Prospects in Light of Popular Votes |
295 |
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DRY VIEW 297-307 |
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Alfred E. Smith as Wet Champion |
297 |
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Increased Dry Majority in Congress |
303 |
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The "Wet Fringe" |
305 |
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Prohibition "Waves" |
306 |
| XVI. |
IN EDUCATION FOR TEMPERANCE? -322 |
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WET VIEW -313 |
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"Unscientific" School Textbooks |
308 |
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Scientific Experiments |
309 |
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The Pearl Experiments |
310 |
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Modern Experiments Recording "Benefits" |
311 |
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Temperance Teaching |
312 |
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DRY VIEW -322 |
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Instruction in Schools |
313 |
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Counter-Effects of Liquor Campaign |
316 |
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A Modern Temperance Program |
317 |
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Shortened Life of "Moderate" Drinkers |
319 |
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Professor Westergaard's Criticism |
320 |
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Teaching of Total Abstinence Justified |
321 |
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IN THE LIGHT OF CANADA'S EXPERI- ENCE? -360 |
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WET VIEW -333 |
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Intoxicating Liquors are the Goal |
324 |
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Hours of Sale |
327 |
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Permits |
328 |
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Interdicts |
328 |
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Licenses |
328 |
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Local Option |
329 |
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Taverns |
330 |
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Consumption of Liquor |
331 |
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Sales of Spirits, Wine, and Beer in Quebec |
331 |
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Imperial Gallons |
332 |
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Consumption of Alcohol |
332 |
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DRY VIEW 333-360 |
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No Leeway in Scientific Definition |
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Increased Sales |
336 |
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Bootleggery |
339 |
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Night Clubs and Road Houses |
343 |
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Law Loosely Observed in Cities |
344 |
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Cancellation of Permits |
347 |
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Experience in Quebec |
347 |
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The Government Stores |
348 |
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Convictions for Indictable Offenses in the Provinces of Canada |
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Health Conditions in Quebec |
352 |
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Motor Accidents |
356 |
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Prosecutions for Violations of Liquor Laws |
358 |
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XVIII. IN THE LIGHT OF BRITISH EXPERI- ENCE? -376 |
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WET VIEW -370 |
364 |
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Convictions for Drunkenness in England and Wales |
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Death Rates from Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of the Liver in England and Wales |
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Consumption of Absolute Alcohol in the United Kingdom |
367 |
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DRY VIEW -376 |
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Per Capita Consumption of Spirits, Wine, and Beer in the United Kingdom |
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Rates of Arrests or Convictions for Intoxication |
372 |
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Death Rates from Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of the Liver in England and Wales |
374 |
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PART II--WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT IT? |
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| XIX. |
CAN PROHIBITION BE REPEALED? -397 |
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WET VIEW -387 |
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Substitute for Prohibition Is Offered |
379 |
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Rights of Wet States Asserted |
381 |
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Smith Makes a Promise |
382 |
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Appeals in Behalf of Parents |
383 |
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Referendum Frown on Prohibition |
386 |
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DRY VIEW -397 |
387 |
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"Keep Liquor Away from Them" |
388 |
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Forty-six States Hard to Move |
389 |
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Legislative Majority Votes Dry |
391 |
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The Question of Fair Play |
393 |
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Dry States Confirmed in Their Dryness |
395 |
| XX. |
CAN PROHIBITION BE MODIFIED OR NULLIFIED? -415 |
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WET VIEW -406 |
398 |
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Object Is to Nullify the Intent |
399 |
