Saturday, February 2, 2019

A Disappointing Welcome Home for the Doughboys


The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of "intoxicating liquors" in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919, just as the Doughboys were flooding home from France.

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