Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city and the sun was shining brightly on the following day. " Chancellor" Hitler and " Commander-in-Chief" von Ludendorff were within the War Office when the loyal Bavarian Reichswehr, commanded by the " disloyal" (to Berlin) General von Lossow, stormed the building, and after a short battle the "beer hall revolt" was crushed...
...love him as much as it is possible for one man to love another. . He has been quoted in recent newspaper interviews as criticizing me on my desire to have the Volstead Act changed to permit old-fashioned beer. . . . When he says I knew better than to propose such a change, he challenges my good faith and sincerity. It comes with poor taste from a man so politically ambitious...
Crew C-Bow, Dane; 2, Iselin; 3, Darlington; 4, Weymer; 5, Rice-Bassett; 6, Winthrop; 7, Krumbhaar; stroke, Canning; cox., Beer...
...President's suggestion, to point out concretely how, in my opinion, the sources of illegal domestic liquor can be dried up. "The present orgy of lawlessness is utterly unnecessary. The Federal Government has a right to give or refuse a permit to make or dispose of beer, liquor or alcohol in any form and to describe its conditions. "If the Federal Government would write into each of its permits to manufacture, transport, store or utilize alcoholic liquors certain simple conditions it would make lawbreaking so difficult as to be practically impossible." Mr. Pinchot has found his issue...
...himself a poilu during the War, swooped down upon the camps to inspect the food of the poilus, who, according to Paris smalltalk, are not properly fed. M. Maginot found the quantity of food sufficient but the quality occasionally bad. He also found that some poilus were getting a beer ration when they preferred wine. The Minister of War ordered the change and added that he would from time to time "make unannounced inspections" of soldiers' barracks...