Mississippi Prohibition Debate Surges Over Black Market Tax
The story details a tax battle led by state tax collector William Winter over a 10 percent black market levy and a retaliatory warehouse seizure by a constable. It contrasts legal abstinence with a thriving illicit market, noting employment and tax figures in Mississippi's dry era and critiquing moral judgments about a profitable but illegal industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Winter
Harrison
Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc
Mississippi
Tennessee
Arkansas
Book Review on Suburbia and Demi-Paradise
The piece contrasts city suburbia with Wake Robin Farm as Margaret Halsey’s book satirizes middle class life. It notes lively scenes of children at play, humor and wit in Halsey’s writing, and situates the work among her prior books like With Malice Toward Some and Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare
Margaret Halsey
Westchester
Paradise
Hell
Wake Robin Farm
Suburbia
America
van Allen
Atrophy of Thought in Cold War American Life
The piece warns that fear and conformity to authority threaten thinking and creativity amid nuclear deterrence. It critiques the public’s reliance on leaders, church, media, and consumer comforts while urging citizen responsibility to seek facts, speak out, and question authority. It questions democracy in forward functioning and calls out cultural apathy as atrophy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Kennedy
Methodist Church
Welch
The
Birch Society
Castro
Beard
Khrushchev
Pentagon
Playboy
Fragmentary newspaper notice from Montgomery Alabama
Fragment reads like a postal notice or subscription snippet from a Montg omery Alabama publication. Mentions Hattiesburg, subscriptions six months per year and a mailing address Box 9.
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Ev Sou' Farrer
Ee Publications Co
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Council of Atomic Scientists
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George F. Kennan
BBC
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Nyack, N.Y
Dear Brother
Cape Cod
Dependable
Red Chase Lumber, Inc
Exeter
West Dennis
Mass
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