Washington, D.C., 119
Washingtonians, the (temperance society), 44, 45–46
Weeden, William B., 41
Welch’s Grape Juice Company, 52
Westerfield, Ray, 23
West Indies, rum trade with, 41, 42
Wharton School of Economics, 12
whiskey: commerce in, 43; consumption patterns of, 102, 103 & table, 104 (table); medicinal use of, 52n; potency of, 103–4; prices of, relative to beer, 101–2, 102 (table)
Whitebread, Charles, II, 66
White House Drug Abuse Policy Office, 89
Wickersham, George W., 135
Wickersham Commission. See National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement
Wickersham Report, 133–35
Williams, Robert H., 135
Wilson, James Q., 125
Wilson, Woodrow, 18–19
wine: cocaine as ingredient of, 60; consumption patterns of, 104 (table); disassociation of hard liquor from, 55; Islamic injunction against, 58; relative prices of, 102 (table); view of temperance movement toward, 44, 45
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 4, 48, 49
women’s movement, support for prohibition, 47, 48, 52
Wooddy, Carroll H., 123
workers: issuance of alcohol rations to, 19, 41, 42; reaction to capitalism, 120–21. See productivity
workmen’s compensation laws, as incentive for private prohibition, 20
World War I, 50, 52, 56, 105n, 122; and narcotics control, 64–65, 69; policy toward alcohol during, 18–19, 55, 123
World War II, 5
Wyoming territory, 48
Yale Socialist Club, 17
Zarkin, Gary A., 124
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