Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Inquiry which has been investigating ways and means of providing beer in the House Dining Halls has, as was announced today, found a possible solution to its problem. It believes that the laws governing social institutions are sufficiently broad to permit the Houses to incorporate individually as clubs and thus gain the right to serve beer. If the plan proves feasible, it will be put into effect next fall...
...cost would be prohibitive if the fee were set at the latter figure. Actually, there is no reason why an amicable settlement in this matter cannot be reached. If the University restricted the consumption of its matter cannot be reached. If the University restricted the consumption of its beer to the dining halls, it would materially reduce any competition with local merchants; this favor could be returned by the Cambridge authorities in the form of a reasonably low license fee, if they were willing to forego the opportunity of knifing the University...
Another main difficulty is the fact that beer cannot be dispensed to persons under twenty-one. While the restaurants in Harvard Square and other locations are not troubled by this provision of the law. it is said that it may prove an insistent thorn in the side of the University, because of the great number of minors concentrated within these walls. Officials and others will use the certainty that the young are to be exposed to the evil influence as an argument against the introduction of the golden fluid. The obvious asininity of such arguments and of the clause...
...Beer put a froth of new revenue on last week's Treasury announcement of April tax receipts. From April 7 to May 1, the $5-per-bbl. tax, the $1,000-per-year brewers' tax, the $50-per-year wholesalers' tax and the $20-per-year retailers' tax netted the U. S. $9,138,863 in 35 States. At that rate (surely below actual) the U. S. would realize some $110,000,000 per year from beer. In 23 days beer-bibbers in New York contributed $2,290,686 in Pennsylvania $1,363,704, in Wisconsin...
Died. Dr. John Grier Hibben, 72, president-emeritus of Princeton University; of internal hemorrhages when he drove his Packard sedan (given him by Princeton's trustees upon his retirement last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after...