10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRY LAW»
Discover the use of
dry law in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dry law and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City
... supporting political efforts to undermine the reach of the dry law, Americans in
many parts of the United States vigorously resisted Prohibition, their rebellion
against the Eighteenth Amendment growing more pronounced as the years went
by ...
2
No Price Too High: Victimless Crimes and the Ninth Amendment
42 It is interesting that prohibitionists believed that a national dry law would
succeed where state dry laws had failed. State laws were violated internally, for
instance, by "blind pig" establishments and externally by importing alcohol from
wet ...
3
Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, ...
hoi Problem, s.v. "WNCLE"; "Dry Action Divides the Women Voters," New York
Times, 29 Apr. 1924, 21; "Women Pledge Aid to Uphold Dry Law: Voters' 204
League Adopts Plan for 'Cooperation and Active Work' to Enforce It," New York
Times, ...
Catherine Gilbert Murdock, 2001
4
Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle Over Liquor ...
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union had preached moderation or abstinence
throughout the nation, but it and the church balked at prohibition. According to the
guidelines of the Bone-Dry Law, the church's sacramental wine used during
mass ...
5
Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era
Even the Pollyanna Prohibitionists understood that the dry law would initially
require an enforcement apparatus. State and local police forces would add
enforcing the dry law to their long list of duties, but they could allocate only part of
their ...
6
Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in ...
As one observer noted in 1919, the recently implemented dry law "met with
enormous resistance. There were protests, bitter complaints. . . . The company
was inflexible: either submit or abandon the mine."13 Workers complained that
the dry ...
Thomas Miller Klubock, 1998
7
Fractured Modernity: America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s ...
In Prohibitionist rhetoric, a criminal-punitive discourse prevailed, with terms like “
law enforcement”, “climate of lawlessness”, and “dry law” prevalent. One in four
articles covering Prohibition in 1929 included the words “law” or “enforce” in the ...
Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff, 2012
8
Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State ...
The people got sick and tired of the so-called dry law because it did not stop
drunkenness and encouraged bootlegging and made bootleg millionaires and
the retail bootleggers made enough so they could buy a new car every year. In
saloon ...
Iowa. General Assembly. Senate
9
Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International ...
... claims that 40 percent of Russians were abstainers. The Soviet Era Tsarist
Russia imposed a Dry Law in 1914 as part of the mobilization of the troops and to
improve the social and moral condition of the populace during the war ...
Jack S. Blocker, David M. Fahey, Ian R. Tyrrell, 2003
10
Understanding The Great Gatsby: A Student Casebook to ...
FROM "TEXAS GUINAN'S CLUB CLOSED FOR SIX MONTHS" (New York Times,
February 24, 1927) Padlock Is Snapped on the '300' for Dry Law Breach — Rival
Seeks Its Patrons At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon Captain John Inglesby, ...
Dalton Gross, MaryJean Gross, 1998
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRY LAW»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
dry law is used in the context of the following news items.
Mizoram collects Rs.723.43 lakh excise revenue on liquor
... from March 16, 2015 for the first time after 28 years as partial prohibition was in place since 1987 and the dry law was in force for 18 years. «The Statesman, Jul 15»
Bolivian village bans alcohol and introduces curfew to end crimewave
Villagers in a small community in Bolivia have implemented a dry law and curfew to try to cut crime after a spate of child rapes. La Asunta, a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
The Bolivian town that banned alcohol for a month to stop assaults …
The police can't do anything so we've decided to take our own measures and we've called for complying with a 30-day dry law," said Jorge ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2 Mizos censured for opening liquor shops | Guwahati NYOOOZ
The assembly recently enacted the Mizoram Liquor Prohibition and Control (MPLC) Act, 2014, replacing the stringent dry law called the ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
Book review: 'Compliments To The Bear'
Prohibition was not popular, although in 1918 alcohol had been banned in Alaska under the Bone Dry Law, which was regularly ignored in ... «Juneau Empire, Jun 15»
AP PHOTOS: Coca Town Cracks Down on Alcohol to Fight Rapes
Neighborhood leaders have imposed a sort of vigilante dry law in the coca-growing mountain town of La Asunta, hoping to end a series of ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
Mexico's elections are having a hard time competing with alcohol …
Many hoarded beer and alcohol in anticipation of this weekend's Ley Seca or “Dry Law,” a two-day prohibition on booze that's intended to ... «Fusion, Jun 15»
Heads up for the Weekend! Alcohol Sale and Purchase Prohibited
“Ley Seca” Dry Law) (alcohol prohibition) is enforced to maintain peace and order in the city, so the citizens of Merida can cast their vote freely ... «The Yucatan Times, Jun 15»
Israel to Completely Demolish Negev Village & Displace Residents
For its part, Adalah center, commenting on the decision, said that the Supreme Court was coveting behind the dry law, which gives Israel the ... «International Middle East Media Center, May 15»
No booze allowed during Holy Week in 27 cantons
Tourism leaders say the dry law hurts bars while benefitting supermarkets since people who want to drink during Holy Week will stock up ... «The Tico Times, Mar 15»
