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.
PROHIBITION. The popular name for the period in U.S. history from 1920 to 1933 when the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beveragesâexcept for medicinal or religious purposesâwere illegal. From 1920 to 1933 the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors were illegal in the United States.The eighteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution authorized Congress to prohibit alcoholic beverages, but the twenty-firstamendment repealed this prohibition.ROHIBITION. The popular name for the period in U.S. history from 1920 to 1933 when the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beveragesâexcept for medicinal or religious purposesâwere illegal. From 1920 to 1933 the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors were illegal in the United States.