Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts state liquor law, diverting document that it is, does not clarify the situation which has existed since last year in regard to the serving of beer in the House dining halls. Some of the Housemasters have supported beer from the first and are growing impatient of delay, others have been converted more recently: now they stand in a fairly compact body behind its introduction. But the liquor laws and age limits exist in a fog of doubt, and until that fog is dispelled, there is small hope for action...
...barriers, the most obstinate has been the twenty-one year age limit. Why this was extended to a beverage admittedly non-intoxicating must remain ever locked in the breasts of the Massachusetts legislature. But as it stands, it would permit beer in the houses only if separate tables were set up for those over twenty-one, and all others were rigidly barred from them by the dining hall administration. Little imagination is required to see that this would be an awkward and an undesirable rule; the spectacle of a headwaitress making discreet inquiries of even the least of her wards...
...obvious reasons, the university administration has said little on the question of beer in the Houses. But if student opinion were united, and pressure put on University Hall through the housemasters, it might be driven to admit that 3.2 beer with meals was a privilege which Harvard is certainly adult enough to claim, and to suggest this to the Massachusetts legislature. A simple amendment of the beer age limit from twenty-one to eighteen would be nothing but a legal acknowledgment of a plain fact. Even the Massachusetts legislature cannot remain forever so far from the walks...
...defense Wexler pictured himself as a poor man. He was, he said, only a small cog in a big wheel. His real bosses had been Hassel and Greenberg who gave him a modest allowance, supplied limousines to "keep up the front." He owned no breweries, knew little about the beer racket, and nothing at all about New York gang murders. When Prosecutor Dewey called his testimony a lie, Wexler wept...
...years ago Peerless was a good automobile. Last year Peerless became a shut-down automobile factory. Last June Peerless decided to become a beer. So Peerless Motor Car Corp. changed its name to Peerless Corp., gave its stockholders rights to purchase one new share of stock at $5 for each five shares they held, announced that Redmond & Co. of the New York Stock Exchange had agreed to underwrite the sale of all shares not subscribed by stockholders. Of the 92,348 shares offered, stockholders subscribed just 277. Last week Redmond & Co. refused to take the 92,071 Peerless shares remaining...