Charles Norris
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He's thinking, and this city, this imperfect, amazing city, is coming back to what it should be. People see him walking away in the dusk with this feeling of a job done.
He's thinking, and this city, this imperfect, amazing city, is coming back to what it should be. People see him walking away in the dusk with this feeling of a job done.
There's one doubter of the nobility of the experiment. Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner of New York, makes protests in the North American Review, calling it a noble experiment in suicide by poison.
There's one doubter of the nobility of the experiment. Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner of New York, makes protests in the North American Review, calling it a noble experiment in suicide by poison.
New York's chief medical examiner declares that the mortality rate from drink, instead of declining with the advance of prohibition, is actually gaining.
New York's chief medical examiner declares that the mortality rate from drink, instead of declining with the advance of prohibition, is actually gaining.
Charles Norris writes, at the end of eight years without good liquor, an increasing proportion of our nation is drinking itself to death on bad liquor.
Charles Norris writes, at the end of eight years without good liquor, an increasing proportion of our nation is drinking itself to death on bad liquor.
Dr. Norris attributes a large number of deaths in motor accidents, homicides, and accidental deaths from falls to poison liquor. Norris says most of these are directly traceable to poison alcohol.
Dr. Norris attributes a large number of deaths in motor accidents, homicides, and accidental deaths from falls to poison liquor. Norris says most of these are directly traceable to poison alcohol.
And while America braced itself for the new normal of prohibition... Georgia becomes the 13th state to ratify the 18th Amendment.
And while America braced itself for the new normal of prohibition... Georgia becomes the 13th state to ratify the 18th Amendment.
Oh, my pennies! Well, at least I'm still looking dapper.
Oh, my pennies! Well, at least I'm still looking dapper.
You believed in the betterment of society through government action and in expertise and turning things over to the people who really knew what they were doing. It was kind of an anti-democratic impulse. It's not related really to the progressivism that we know today.
You believed in the betterment of society through government action and in expertise and turning things over to the people who really knew what they were doing. It was kind of an anti-democratic impulse. It's not related really to the progressivism that we know today.
Your position, if you were a politician on other issues, was meaningless to them if you were OK on the prohibition issue.
Your position, if you were a politician on other issues, was meaningless to them if you were OK on the prohibition issue.