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REP. NANCY PELOSI DELIVERS REMARKS ON LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON DAY
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SPEAKER PELOSI DELIVERS REMARKS IN THE CAPITOL ON LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON DAY, AS RELEASED BY REP. PELOSI'S OFFICE
MAY 21, 2008
SPEAKER: REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
[*] PELOSI: As Speaker of the House, I am honored to welcome Linda Johnson Robb and Lucie Baines Johnson back to the Capitol as we celebrate the legacy of their father, President Lyndon Baines Johnson. As children, they used to run around these halls, they tell me. And go see Uncle Sam [Rayburn] down in the Speaker's office. So this is familiar territory to ...
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`Prohibition worked'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...look at what really happened during Prohibition. They found that, nationwide, there...nearly two-thirds. Some conclude that Prohibition, far from being the total disaster...night That Chicago's still there. - Prohibition-era verse You're a Chicagoan, you...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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PROHIBITION HAD ITS PLUSES, SCHOLARS SAY.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...years of this century, the result was Prohibition. Most people regard it as a flop...drinking became more widespread during the Prohibition era, historians now agree that the...ratified by the states by January 1919. Prohibition took effect a year later. The 18th...
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Prohibition politics
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...standard, schoolbook history of alcohol prohibition in the United States goes like this...Worse, it also became clear that Prohibition fueled mobsters who grew rich supplying...booze. So, recognizing the futility of Prohibition, Americans repealed it in 1934. This...
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Introducing Prohibition Distillery: New York Spirits Company Captures the Spirit of the Roaring Twenties.
PR Newswire
; ...Today, on the same date that Prohibition began in 1920 under the 18th Amendment, a new spirits company opens its doors. Prohibition Distillery recalls this era of youthful...constraints and reveled in disobedience. Prohibition Distillery will be launching a portfolio...
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The Economics of Prohibition. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business
; ...alcohol have sought prohibition and at other times...the establishment of prohibitions. Again historical...indicates that even though prohibition has had limited success...potency from alcohol prohibition years--1921 to...and corruption from prohibitions during 1910-1919...
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An economic analysis of alcohol prohibition
Magazine article from: Journal of Drug Issues
; ...consequences of prohibition. If this...to current prohibitions of abused...many other prohibitions. Further...demise of prohibition are reasonably...most other prohibitions, alcohol prohibition was repealed...
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Forbidden Fruit: When Prohibition Increases the Harm It Is Supposed to Reduce.
Magazine article from: Independent Review
; ...Ostensible motives for the prohibitions have included helping...would they impose such prohibitions? Let us examine the...benign. Such flat prohibition often leads to an...continuously until the prohibitions were repealed between...during the period of prohibition and continued to ...
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The economics of drug prohibition and drug legalization.
Magazine article from: Social Research
; ...Violation of these prohibitions is punishable by lengthy...to enforcing these prohibition regimes. The presumed...for analyzing drug prohibition is the observation...and demanded despite prohibition. This point might...abundant evidence from prohibitions of drugs, alcohol...
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The secret of worldwide drug prohibition: the varieties and uses of drug prohibition.
Magazine article from: Independent Review
; ...of countries in the world have drug prohibition? Is it 100 percent, 75 percent, 50...every country in the world has drug prohibition. Surprising as it seems, almost nobody...about the existence of worldwide drug prohibition. In the last decade of the twentieth...
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The end of U.S. prohibition: A case study of Mississippi
Magazine article from: Contemporary Drug Problems
; ...state in the United States to repeal prohibition, in 1966, and provides a good opportunity...beverages following repeal of a state's prohibition would result in increased consumption...anecdotal data of alcohol consumption during prohibition and per capita sales of distilled spirits...
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