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Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition

Book by Norman H. Clark; Norton, 1976

Subjects:

Prohibition--United States, United States--Social Conditions--1918-1932

Collections: History, Entire Library

...John H. Wuorinen, The Prohibition Experiment in Finland...Science, Vol. 163: Prohibition: A National Experiment...Association against the Prohibition Amendment, Finlands...Prohibition and the 1920s Charles Merz, The Dry...
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Law, Alcohol, and Order: Perspectives on National Prohibition

Book by David E. Kyvig; Greenwood Press, 1985

Subjects:

Prohibition--United States--History--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...was a mere seventeen when prohibition began. During the 1920s he became involved in numerous...bootleg importer by the end of the 1920s. Then, in the 1930s, as he...seen in Las Vegas. By the late 1920s, after the Coast Guard effectively...
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Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930

Book by John J. Rumbarger; State University of New York Press, 1989

Subjects:

Industrialization--United States--History, Prohibition--United States--History, Temperance--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment emerged in the 1920s as American capitals instrument for monitoring prohibition, and subsequently fashioned...political problems accompanying the prohibition regime, organized its sentiment...
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Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City

Book by Michael A. Lerner; Harvard University Press, 2007

Subjects:

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social Conditions--20th Century, New York (N.Y.)--Social Conditions--20th Century, Prohibition--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...so for the duration of the Prohibition era. 13y the mid-1920s, his daily routine consisted...of the liver in r y4j.` Prohibition-era converts to the wet...and had rarely drunk before Prohibition, complaining that the taste...
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The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition

Book by Herbert Asbury; Doubleday, 1950

Subjects:

Prohibition--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of Idaho, a powerful dry leader. 2 By the middle 1920s prohibition had become almost a national ob session; it overshadowed...York paper alone printed almost seventeen thousand prohibition items in eight years, and a large proportion were...

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Federalism, Positive Law, and the Emergence of the American Administrative State: Prohibition in the Taft Court Era

Journal article by Robert Post; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 48, 2006

Subjects:

Federalism--Laws, regulations and rules, Liquor laws--Political aspects, Prohibition--Laws, regulations and rules, United States Constitution--U.S. Const. amend. 18

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...techniques used to secure prohibitions enforcement. Not...it had been during prohibition in the 1920s. The opposition...popular will. National prohibition lacked democratic...Normative dualism allowed prohibitions critics to condemn...throughout the 1920s inhabitants of wet...continued to attack prohibition as a national imposition...
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Constitutional Blemishes: American Alcohol Prohibition and Repeal as Policy Punctuation

Journal article by Mark Lawrence Schrad; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 35, 2007

Subjects:

Liquor laws--Analysis, Liquor laws--History, Prohibition--Analysis, Prohibition--History, Social policy--Analysis, United States history--Social aspects

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...agencies. Still, while prohibition was untouchably enshrined...throughout the early 1920s (Figure 4), congressional...internationally, by the late 1920s, every country save Finland had repealed prohibition, and even Finland...Just as national prohibition entered amidst a context...successful policy change, prohibitions demise would be facilitated...
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Beyond Parochialism: Southern Progressivism, Prohibition, and State-Building

Journal article by Ann-Marie Szymanski; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003

Subjects:

Progressive movement--History, Progressivism (United States politics)--History, Prohibition--History, Prohibition--Political aspects, Southern United States--History, Southern United States--Political aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...State Police, the Prohibition Border Patrol...Michigan by the mid-1920s. (51) More specifically...Selective Enforcement of Prohibition in North Florida...Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws of the United...Experiment of the 1920s," Journal of Social...Experiment of the 1920s," 60; Clark Warburton...
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"The Saloon Must Go, and I Will Take It with Me": American Prohibition, Nationalism, and Expatriation in the Sun Also Rises

Journal article by Jeffrey A. Schwarz; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 33, 2001

Subjects:

Alcohol--Influence, Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nationalism and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prohibition--Influence, The Sun Also Rises (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...participation in the 1920s literary circle of rebellion against prohibition. Though certainly...literary artists of the 1920s, for when alcohol...forbidden under prohibition, "many independent...The Long Thirst: Prohibition in America, 1920...Manhattan in the 1920s (New York: Farrar...
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Poverty and Purification: The Politics of Gandhi's Campaign for Prohibition

Journal article by David M. Fahey, Padma Manian; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

Subjects:

Gandhi, Mahatma--Social aspects, Prohibition--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...behind the call for prohibition. For example, among...Gujarat during the early 1920s, the worshippers of...56) After the early 1920s, Gandhi was cautious...implement something of their prohibition agenda when the British...government. Thus, in the 1920s several provinces experimented...

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Politics and Prohibition

Magazine article by Donald J. Boudreaux; Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 52, March 2002

Subjects:

Politics, Prohibition era, Revenue, United States

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...old movement for alcohol prohibition. Before the income tax...Despite pleas throughout the 1920s by H.L. Mencken and a...Shouse emphasized that ending prohibition would boost government revenue...successful attempt to propose the prohibition-ending 21st Amendment...widespread understanding of prohibitions futility and of its ugly...
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The California Snatch Racket: Kidnappings during the Prohibition and Depression Eras

Magazine article by Ken Gonzales-Day; California History, Vol. 88, Summer 2011

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The California Snatch Racket: Kidnappings During the Prohibition and Depression Eras (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The California Snatch Racket: Kidnappings during the Prohibition and Depression Eras. by Ken Gonzales-Day By James R...to the kidnapping frenzy that swept the country in the 1920s and 1930s. The book also includes more gruesome cases...
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The Fiasco of Prohibition

Magazine article by Douglas Rogers; Freeman, Vol. 61, January 2011

Subjects:

Alcohol use, American history, Books, Marijuana, Politics

Collections: History, Entire Library

...an ardent supporter of Prohibition because he saw the potential...to 525 stores during the 1920s. Although family historians...explains to a large extent why Prohibition was doomed to failure...strong enough demand, legal prohibitions on certain goods and services...90 years earlier, see prohibition as a means to eliminate...diagnosis of failure for prohibitions past and present, policy...
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Alcohol, Prohibition, and the Revenuers

Magazine article by Donald J. Boudreaux; Freeman, Vol. 58, January 2008

Subjects:

Federal government, Income taxes, Interest groups, Organized crime, Political alliances, Political behavior, Politics, Revenue Acts, Tariffs, Tax rates, Tax revenues, Workers

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...successfully proposed the Prohibition-enabling Eighteenth Amendment...reducing the cost of voting for Prohibition in December 1917. The lost...triumphant conclusion. Yet Prohibitions cost to Congress increased...explanation for repeal-that Prohibition was widely defied-cant...support for repeal during the 1920s. Its far more likely that...
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The 1920s and the 1980s - a Comparison

Magazine article by Gregory Bergman; Monthly Review, Vol. 38, October 1986

Subjects:

Depressions--History, Economic depressions--History, Economic history--Comparative analysis, United States economic conditions--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...However, the quintessence of 1920s fundamentalism was msot clearly...violators of that law of the land, Prohibition) and adulterers were as likely...mass movement it was in the 1920s. Instead, the electronic...enterprise system." Quite as the 1920s Klan inveighed against alcoholic...

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On Doctors Orders. as Medicine to Beat U.S. Prohibition ; 1. Plain Crazy: A New York Barman Pulls a Medicinal Guinness at a Party to Mark the Repeal of Prohibition a Year after McMullens Visit 2. the Dry Law: Illegal Beer Is Poured Away in the America of the 1920s

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 13, 2007

Subjects:

Beer--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...as Medicine to Beat U.S. Prohibition ; 1. Plain Crazy: A New York...Party to Mark the Repeal of Prohibition a Year after McMullens Visit...Away in the America of the 1920s. Byline: HELEN BRUCE IN THE...The original campaign in the 1920s stemmed from market researchwhen...
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A Toast to Prohibition

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 4, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Toast to Prohibition. Byline: Julie Merar Contributing...party at home featuring a 1920s theme and host as gangster...easies were formed in the 1920s as a means to get around...Just because the party is 1920s themed does not mean you...
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Exhibit Focuses on Prohibition; Sets Record Straight: President Wilson Not at Fault

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 2, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Exhibit Focuses on Prohibition; Sets Record Straight...the blame for starting Prohibition, a movement that banned...role in the movement. "Prohibition started during his presidency...an invitation-only, 1920s-style holiday celebration...
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THE DECADE - 1920s: THE HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN PICTURES 1920-1929

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 1, 2000

Subjects:

Freud, Sigmund

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

THE DECADE - 1920s: THE HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN PICTURES 1920-1929. Prohibition was introduced in America. On Bloody Sunday, the IRA killed 14 British officers and officials and 12 people died when soldiers...
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Speakeasy Mystique with a Side of Laughter; Taste Test Greg O'Keeffe Samples Some Prohibition-Era Style Dining

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), April 8, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Test Greg OKeeffe Samples Some Prohibition-Era Style Dining. ITS tough...books show it was a bad idea. Prohibition only led to bootlegging, the...dry throats in those muggy 1920s summers. But the spread of...it is lavishly decorated in 1920s fashion, full of dark alcoves...

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Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...occurred with the repeal of Prohibition), drug trafficking and...cocaine diminished by the 1920s. The spirit of temperance led to the prohibition of alcohol by the Eighteenth...Constitution in 1919, but Prohibition was repealed in 1933...
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Organized Crime

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and more successful. The Prohibition Era The organized-crime syndicate...States is a product of the prohibition era of the early 20th cent...distinctive features of the 1920s. Powerful gangs corrupted...The Syndicate The era of the 1920s had taught organized crime...
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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CENSORSHIP official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression...regulatory code of morals in the 1920s (see Hays, Will H. ). This was...federal funding and not a general prohibition on access. In Other Countries In...
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Capone, Al

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...leader. They established numerous speakeasies in Chicago in the prohibition era. After eliminating his opponents "Scarface" Capone took...politicians. His crime syndicate which terrorized Chicago in the 1920s and controlled gambling and prostitution there was estimated...
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Palestine , Region, Asia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...immigrants should be admitted (1922 White Paper). In the 1920s, Jewish immigration was slight, but the Jewish communities...demanding instead the immediate creation of an Arab Palestine, the prohibition of further immigration, and a review of the status of all...

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