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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixth-you make the further statement to the effect" that "The lights at 'Shady Oaks,' the comfortable country place on Lake Worth where Publisher Carter & wife do much of their entertaining, generally burn far into the night'' and that he never serves beer because he dislikes it, "but there is always abundance of Texas corn and Scotch, his favorite drinks, which he usually takes neat." This statement is not only slanderous and false, but that you should introduce Mrs. Carter's name into such an atmosphere is proof enough that a gentleman is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Underneath was a picture of a man guzzling beer from a keg in a New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Last Mile | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...study of the report of the Special Recess Committee shows that all existing licenses for the sale of light wine and beer will be revoked at the legislation of the proposed law. Reilly explained the widespread unwillingness of merchants to renew their beer and ale licenses by pointing out that many of them are rapidly going into debt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospects of Selling Liquor Found Unwelcome By Square Stores---Cost and Atmosphere Bad | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

...Game (Fox) contains interesting data on professional kidnappers. They speak of their victims as "mental cases," incarcerate them in a suburban sanitarium, where the "resident physician" is the most sinister member of their band. Naturally the kidnappers in The Mad Game receive their just deserts. A kindly beer-baron (Spencer Tracy), onetime leader of their gang, whom they have helped send to prison because of his reluctance to be a "snatcher" as well as a 'legger, gets paroled to track them down. Neatly circumventing the Hays organization's antipathy to gangster pictures, The Mad Game would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...Beery is present, there is heavy comedy; since George Raft is on the scene there is someone tough and light and virile. All these things, predicted from a reading of the east, come true. Nevertheless, the show is entertaining. Chuck Connors, a saloonkeeper, wallows about in a sea of beer and oaths, delivering beautiful blows to the jaws of his enemies, and, at one point, emitting a belch which is a classic. He is flashy and rude, with diamond horseshoes and checkered suits; he is not always convincing, but he is always amusing. George Raft shows us Steve Brodie...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/10/1933 | See Source »

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