On January 16,1919, the congress of the United States of America ratified the 18th amendment, and prohibiting the “manufacture,sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.[i]” And so, and after years of fervent lobbying by groups such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union,the U.
S. entered a short-lived period in which alcohol was forbidden (but still widely...
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