Assertion: prohibition | /r/CapableOf | take effect
Facets:
value: to produce wine
type: PURPOSE
value: in the months
type: TEMPORAL
value: to produce cider
type: PURPOSE
value: on the last night
type: TEMPORAL
value: about the time
type: TEMPORAL
value: on january
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: When Prohibition took effect on January 17, 1920, many thousands of formerly legal saloons across the country catering only to men closed down.
text: On the last night before Prohibition would take effect, people attended parties at bars where mock funerals were held for John Barleycorn, a fictional character symbolizing liquor.
text: Before the era of Prohibition (which took effect about the time the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920), saloons were largely a "men only" affair.
text: But bootleggers started using denatured industrial alcohol disguised as whiskey – what would be called “rotgut” for its effect on the drinker’s internal organs – even in the months before Prohibition took effect.
text: In October 1920, eight months after Prohibition took effect, the Treasury Department issued a statement clarifying Section 29 of Volstead concerning manufacturing fruit juices at home without a federal permit.
text: Over Anti-Saloon League objections, Congress also permitted continued private possession of alcoholic beverages purchased before Prohibition took effect as well as the home fermentation of fruit juices to produce cider or wine for personal use.