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.
1 Prohibition of alcohol occurs in the United States. 2  Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919, with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.Constitution, effective as of January 17, 1920, and it continued throughout the 1920s.