Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1934), cotton control bill (1934), raising the income tax (1934) A self-proclaimed reactionary, he suspects all New Deal legislation, believes the Democratic recovery program is composed of "mere relief measures." Legislative hobbies: As party whip...
...show; Swift & Co., which had hired the Chicago Symphony to play every day for ten weeks. One of the difficulties about Fair-going last year was that a visitor had to do his long-distance tramping with a bottle in his pocket if he expected any refreshment stronger than beer. There are no saloons at the new Fair, but plenty of hard liquor is served with "meals." Hiram Walker had a big whale-backed building inside which an exhibition distillery was humming. Most of last year's real fun was to be had in the ribald Streets of Paris...
...countryside marched in. Not peace but warfare followed. Though the factory ceased operations, rage and resentment seized the strikers who harried the soldiers with insults, jeers, rocks. Every window in the factory was broken. "Now," shouted a striker, "you have your open shop." Wagons and wheelbarrows of bricks and beer bottles were trundled up from the rear to throw at Guardsmen. Unemployed joined the battle. Boys in short trousers popped at the Guardsmen with BB rifles. The battered Guardsmen retaliated with barrages of tear gas, with bayonet charges. The strikers, by now a passion-ridden mob completely out of control...
...post), Brazil's John Dillinger has shot his way through back-country towns and ranches for 15 years. Two hundred Federal troops with machine guns and airplane scouts were unable to catch Lampeao, who delighted the country folk from time to time by free distribution of all the beer in town and by pulling out sheriffs' beards, hair by hair...
...staunch Dry who asserts he became tipsy on beer at 14. Dr. Reisner toured Manhattan speakeasies during Prohibition, described his experiences in full to the Press. But no dour cleric is he, for he heartily aims to amuse, soothe and edify his parishioners, especially at Sunday night services. Every summer Dr. Reisner holds a snow service, with scrapings from an ice plant. He has held whistling services, given away apples, oranges and bread in literal demonstration of scriptural tenets. Other Broadway Temple entertainment includes newsreels, secular singers, bell-ringers, trumpeters and Mr. & Mrs. Vanderbilt Shrump, bird imitators. Before a mirror...