Amendment of the Prohibition Act: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Manufactures, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, First Session on S. 436, a Bill to Amend the National Prohibition Act, as Amended and Supplemented, in Respect to the Definition of Intoxicating Liquor and S. 2473, a Bill to Provide for Increasing the Permissible Alcholic Content of Beer, Ale, Or Porter to 3 -/10 Per Centum by Weight and to Provide Means by which All Such Beer, Ale, Or Porter Shall be Made of Products of American Farms. January 8 to February 19, 1932U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932 - Počet stran: 574 |
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Strana 471 - Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation...
Strana 16 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Strana 468 - No legislature can bargain away the public health or the public morals. The people themselves cannot do it, much less their servants. The supervision of both these subjects of governmental power is continuing in its nature, and they are to be dealt with as the special exigencies of the moment may require. Government is organized with a view to their preservation, and cannot divest itself of...
Strana 279 - ... 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...
Strana 6 - Sciences, edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Diagnosis, in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia...
Strana 458 - No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized in this Act, and all the provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed to the end that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be prevented.
Strana 564 - Every person who manufactures fermented liquors of any name or description for sale, from malt, wholly or in part, or from any substitute therefor, shall be deemed a brewer...
Strana 468 - Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to (him), and makest (him) drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Strana 471 - ... consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies.
Strana 458 - There is in this position an assumption of a fact which does not exist, that when the liquors are taken in excess the injuries are confined to the party offending. The injury, it is true, first falls upon him in his health, which the habit undermines; in his morals, which it weakens; and in the self-abasement which it creates. But as it leads to neglect of business and waste of property and general demoralization it affects those who are immediately connected with and dependent upon him.