Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid for a set of Lincoln and Jefferson to give to "a politician." Last April, Plug-uglies Hassel and Greenberg were murdered in a New Jersey hotel. Irving Wexler dried his eyes and went on about his business of being New York's most notorious gangster and beer baron. Last week the Wexler career came to an abrupt and inglorious end in a dingy Federal courtroom in Manhattan...
...When his trial began bull-necked Irving Wexler affected bored unconcern. Hands laced across his paunch, he dozed while lawyers droned. But spry, boyish Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey soon jolted him wide awake with 140 witnesses and 900 exhibits carefully tracing the history and ramifications of Wexler's beer business. He showed that while Wexler was reporting an income of $8,000 and paying a tax of $10.76. he was living royally off the profits of his breweries, was investing large sums in hotel ventures. By the time Prosecutor Dewey was through with him Wexler was hollow-eyed, limp...
Tonight in the Martha Washington Room of the Commander, the German Club will hold a beer garden dance from 8 to 1 o'clock. Music will be furnished by Ned Marshall and his Crimson Club Orchestra...
Perhaps University Hall assumes that this is a passing matter, that soon all will be forgotten, and that "tradition" has indicated an easy exit from a dangerous situation. This is a blind, one is tempted to say, a child's argument. The day will come when light wines and beer will be served in the dining halls. It will be a long time coming, it will require changes in the state laws and in the University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect...
Lowell House is adding to its closetful of traditions 15 Port Glasses with the House Crest. They may be used for the Harvard Beer served nightly at High Table, for though the House has seven squash courts, and some fine lockers for ageing firewood, it has as yet no wine cellar...