AT&T's most recent dividend increase extended its track record to 31 years of consecutive dividend raises. Moreover, AT&T is included in the exclusive group of stocks that have managed a dividend policy that has increased its dividend for 25 or more consecutive years.
Introduction. The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 through 1933, and was an attempt to legislate morality. It took a Constitutional amendment to enact it, and another one to repeal it. The attempt to decrease the evils of alcohol actually created more-and new-types of crime.
Wet and Dry: (Unintended) Consequences of Prohibition From 1920 to 1933, prohibition federally banned alcoholic beverages in the United States through a constitutional mandate. This development, spurred on by the âdryâ rural Southern Protestant crusaders, really cramped the style of many people for that decade.