Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beer flowed legally in the dining halls yesterday for the first time in over 100 years. Two brands of beer and one of ale were offered to students over 21, seated at special tables. The Business School and Medical School were deprived however of the privilege because the University has not as yet procured a license for them...
This unprecedented action was the result of an announcement made December 20 by the Corporation that it would apply for licenses permitting the sale of malt beverages in the Houses. The Corporation's decision to apply for licenses followed long agitation that began last April when the 3.2 beer bill was passed and continued through to its climax some weeks ago when several students brought wine into the dining halls and some Houses voted in favor of having beer served...
...following Federal liquor tax schedule: Spirits-$2 per gal., up from $1.10. Light wines-10? per gal., up from 4?. Heavy wines-20? per gal., up from 10?. Fortified wines-40? to $2 per gal., up from 25? & $1.10. Domestic sparkling wines-80? per gal, down from $1.92. Beer-$5 per bbl., down from...
CWAdministrator Hopkins, who gives bread to millions, last week announced that he wanted to give them circuses. Said he: "A civic orchestra supported by relief funds is giving concerts in Brooklyn, and we are financing quartets and small bands. I would like to provide orchestras for beer gardens to encourage people to sit around drinking their beer and enjoying themselves. It would be a great unemployment relief measure...
...Pudgy, beer-bibbing Critic Henry Louis Mencken led an outraged charge by members of the "Saturday Night Club" upon two drunks who, loudly denouncing War, tried to crash into the club's meeting in the back room of a Baltimore restaurant. With Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Biologist Raymond Pearl, Conductor Gustav Strube at his heels, Critic Mencken chased the rowdies to the street, collared them, had them jailed overnight. Next day he made them sign a release, crowed: "If they're Communists I don't trust them. They'll go back to Washington and claim they...