Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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. The tall, lusty host never serves beer because he dislikes it, but there is always an abundance of Texas corn and Scotch, his favorite drinks, which he usually takes neat. Here the Farley party, joined by Funnyman Will Rogers, was welcomed...
...surrendered to meet a charge of having run off with the funds of the party, such as they were. Before one dismisses too lightly the chance of resurrection, one should cast a glance at the humble beginnings of the Nazi party, which all Germany thought squelched after the ridiculous beer-hall putsch, when a peculiar loon named Hitler jumped on a table, fired three shots into the ceiling, and proclaimed the Revolution, whose end came a few moments later with the arrival of government troops. CASTOR...
...while Legion delegates were parading down Michigan Avenue last week, and upsetting trucks to get ice for their beer, dropping paper sacks of water out of upper-story windows, happily messing up Chicago's hotels, their working committees worked out a program of which the essence was conservatism, the watchword. "Resell the Legion to the country." Through its committees and on the convention floor, the Legion...
...Brewery Workers Union, a dormant allied organization which woke up when beer came back, was ready to quit the Federation when it found that its teamsters, engineers and firemen were about to be handed over to the jurisdiction of A. F. of L. teamsters', engineers' and firemen's unions. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a strong independent organization with 130,000 members, was ready to add its numbers to the A. F. of L. But there was a hitch. A. F. of L.'s United Garment Workers demanded that Amalgamated unionists stitch no men's clothes...
Owing to the success of last year's beer garden dance at the Hotel Commander, there will be several such affairs this winter. It is probable that the club will perform one or two plays in addition...