Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clicquot Caps, "Have you any Clicquot Caps?" is a question solicitors for unemployment relief organizations may soon be asking. Last week Clicquot Club (ginger ale) Co. announced that it will pay 1? per cap to approved charity organizations. It will take 10,000 caps to raise $100, but admen saluted a stroke of smart publicity...
Last week Standard Oil Co. of New Fork tied up its products with religious observance much as Clicquot Club Co. (ginger ale) tied up its bottle caps with unemployment relief. It announced that a special 2? stamp tax would be placed on all Yahrzeit lamps, and a graded tax from 1? to 10? on all ritual candles. The proceeds will go to the New York Yeshivoth and Talmud Torah funds, which maintain Jewish parochial schools and rabbinical academies in the city...
Sued for Divorce. By Jane Thurston Harris, 21, daughter of Conjurer Howard Thurston: Harry Harris. 29, Pittsburgh theatre scion; in Pittsburgh. Charges: because she refused his backgammon advice, he hurled backgammon board, glasses and a ginger ale bottle, tore off her clothes before guest. Not mentioned: the 1931 fight in a Detroit hotel between Defendant Harris & Father-in-law Thurston, leaving two Thurston ribs broken, Harris nearly blinded by a volley from Thurston's tear gas fountain...
...proposed beer bill soon to be brought up in the Senate has several unsatisfactory features, but never-the-less it is important as a revenue producing measure. This bill, written by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, provides for the sale and manufacture of "beer, ale, porter, bock, stout, lager, or a name similar thereto." With the above-named beverages taken out of the prohibition amendment, no other federal legislation would be necessary, since there is an existing tax of six dollars a barrel on beer on one hand, and the Webb-Kenyen act protecting-dry states on the other...
...word "liquor" or the phrase "intoxicating liquor" shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter and wine and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquor, liquids and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented or not and by whatever name called containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...