Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declaring that distillers were gouging the public, Representative John Joseph Cochran of St. Louis, where Cozy Corner used to sell for 98? a quart, indignantly announced: "Seven dollars a quart for whiskey, no matter how old, is outrageous! Chemists of the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol advise me that the best whiskey available today did not cost more than 50? a gallon to make." He advised a drinkers' strike...
...excited over the possibility that liquor dealers were taking undue advantage of the drinking public was Dr. James M. Doran. For 26 years Dr. Doran has been on the Government payroll, since 1930 as Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol. As chairman of the Distillers Code Authority he said last week: "A mere boom. It is absurd for anyone to predict the price of liquor for the next few days...
...Chairman William F. Smith of the Wholesale Liquor Dealers Committee of New York telegraphed Federal Alcohol Control Administration's Director Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. to turn the "spotlight of publicity" on an alleged whiskey trust which had cornered 90% of the nation's straight spirits. "Distillery interests," he charged, "are selling inferior blended whiskeys that are cut with more than 17% of artificially colored water and alcohol and are injurious to the health of the consuming public. They are selling these blends to the wholesale and retail liquor dealers at prices around $30 a case. If they...
Sitting Pretty (Paramount) concerns two songwriters, one serious (Jack Haley) and one deluded by conceit (Jack Oakie), who hitchhike from Manhattan to Hollywood, there indulge in romance, alcohol and creative work. Haley becomes attached to a blonde waif (Ginger Rogers) who meets the pair on their way West, follows them to Hollywood. Oakie grows fond of an erratic actress (Thelma Todd), who abandons him when he loses...
...obvious that the special license which might be issued to the University is limited by the foregoing section to one permitting the dispensing of malt beverages only, which are defined in Section 1 of the act, to include "all alcoholic beverages manufactured or produced by the process of brewing or fermentation of malt. . .and containing not more than twelve percent of alcohol by weight". It is further obvious that such a special license may be issued only if Cambridge votes to permit all forms of liquor or if it votes to issue licenses for the sale of malt beverages...