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The Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1919 and nullified in 1933, described the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors” as a criminal act.
Prohibition, as the anti-alcohol movement in the United States was popularly known, was vocally supported by the prominent American rabbi, Stephen Wise, and by Moses Alexander, the first Jewish governor of Idaho who had signed a law in 1916 banning the sale and consumption of liquor.
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