United States v. Standard Brewery, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. , ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. The cases are stated in, the opinion. This act was passed under the special war powers of Congress. Its primary purpose was the withdrawal of man-power and/foodstuffs from nonessential employment and their devotion to employment necessary for the successful conduct of the war..
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. , ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. The cases are stated in, the opinion. This act was passed under the special war powers of Congress. Its primary purpose was the withdrawal of man-power and/foodstuffs from nonessential employment and their devotion to employment necessary for the successful conduct of the war.. For this Congress could prohibit the manufacture of nonintoxicating as well as intoxicating beverages.- "What was done was to place a ban upon certain…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
These causes are here under the Criminal Appeals Act, March 2, 1907, ■ c. 2564, 34 Stat. 1246, and require the construction of the so-called. “War-Time Prohibition Act,” of November 21, 1918, c. 212, 40 Stat. 1045, 1046, 1047.
In No. 458 the Standard Brewery, Incorporated, was indicted for unlawfully using certain grains, cereals,-fruit, and other food products on the 4th of June, 1919, in the manufacture and production of beer for beverage purposes which, it is charged, contained as much as'one-half of one per cent, of alcohol by both weight and volume. In No. 474 the American Brewing Company…
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