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...) incest; (3) malformations incompatible with extra-uterine life; (4) risk to the pregnant person's health. A series of precautions were also adopted to increase the ruling's effectiveness, such as the prohibition of institutional conscientious objection, a framework referencing the violation of women's...

...Albert Levitt Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Volume XXV JANUARY Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly Anti-Prohibition Hallucinations Albert Levitt Lexington, Va. When the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted the anti­ prohibition forces received a decisive defeat. The enactment...

...Howard E. Jensen Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 PROPAGANDA AND THE ANTI-PROHIBITION MOVEMENT HOWARD E. JENSEN I. The Limitations of Propaganda ON OCTOBER 28, 1919, the United States House of Representatives passed the Volstead Act over the Pres­ ident s veto by a majority...

...Robert Moats Miller Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920 . By Timberlake James H. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1963 . Pp. 238 . $5.25 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 129 of urban history. Notes in Sidney Webb s hand...

...Robert A. Hohner Prohibition: The Lie Of The Land . By Cashman Sean Dennis . New York and London : The Free Press and Collier Macmillan , 1981 . Pp. xiv , 290 . $17.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Book Reviews 479 Mickiewicz] the great Polish poet...

...Rev. John E. White Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 Prohibition: The New Task and Opportunity of the South By Rey. John E. White Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia The great Prohibition movement is not suffering for lack of discussion, but it is suffering...

...John Hammond Moore Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 The Negro and Prohibition in Atlanta, 1885-1887 John Hammond Moore Why citizens of Atlanta decided to experiment with prohibition in the mid-188O s is not entirely clear even today.1 True, the city was growing rapidly 21,789...

...Irina Ceric Claiming that the criminal justice system fails to effectively prohibit protest and civil disobedience, corporate lawyers embrace the pervasive use of injunctions and contempt of court charges in struggles over resource extraction in British Columbia, dubbing this approach the “new...

...Robert A. Hohner Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 The Prohibitionists: Who Were They? Robert A. Hohner Thirty years after repeal, prohibition is remembered largely as a curious relic from the American past. It is difficult for the urbane citizen of today to believe that it ever...

... temperance and opposed prohibition or favored per­ sonal abstinence and opposed interference with personal rights and appetites, virtually every person interested in social bet­ terment recognized in the excessive use of liquors a problem to be solved by the individual, by the temperance society...

... easily. Slavery could be extirpated by law; the drink evil is to a degree beyond the power of legislation. The sale and manufac­ ture of liquors may be regulated, may even be prohibited; but it is another matter to stay the personal habits of millions. The most conservative authority, the Committee...

... LIBRARY DONALD H. REIMAN Prohibition: The Lie Of The Land. By Sean Dennis Cashman. New York and London: The Free Press and Collier Macmillan, 1981. Pp. xiv, 290. $17.95. Readers fond of the legend of the Roaring Twenties will enjoy Prohibition: The Lie of the Land. The stereotypes which have dominated...

... in the face of the gradually achieved conviction on the part of the majority of the people of the state in favor of the absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic. The efforts towards the control of this traffic began in 1740 with an act prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to slaves except on the request...

... of Governor Tillman to head off what appeared to be state prohibition. A state-wide election in 1892 gave a majority of about ten thousand for prohibition, out of a total vote of sixtyeight thousand. Tillman, recently elected governor on a reform ticket, was supported by many voters who were in favor...

... those on Boston and Chicago, are among the most interesting parts of the book. DUKE UNIVERSITY ANNE FIROR SCOTT Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920. By James H. Timberlake. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. 238. $5.25. In recent years a number of historians have come...

... to six­ teen, fixes a day s work as eight hours, and prohibits night work by children under sixteen. The products of factories not complying with these provisions are prohibited from inter­ state commerce. However, when this bill as passed by the House came before the Senate, it met with strong opposition...

... by the Interstate Commerce Commission, to hold hearings, sub­ poena witnesses, and to require the production before it of any documentary evidence relating to the investigation. Should the Commission upon such hearing be of the opinion that the methods of competition in question are prohibited by the Act it becomes...

... of Maryland, Cannon was educated at Randolph-Macon and Princeton. He settled in Virginia, where he rose to prominence as a temperance reformer. His commitment to prohibition, the Robert Hohner teaches history and is chairman of the department at the University of Western Ontario. He has previously written...

... as residences or places of abode, in whole or in part, shall be occupied or used as residences or places of abode by colored persons. In sim­ ilar language colored persons were prohibited from moving into or using as a residence any houses or blocks occupied by white people. In a test case (State vs. Gurry...

... The Tie That Binds 899 War and Emancipation, prohibits states from denying ‘‘the equal protection 10 of the laws’’ to anyone within their authority. Not long after the adoption...