Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agreed to the 3.2% beer bill conference report, sent it to the President...
...Passed (180-10-53) a bill to permit the sale of 3.2% beer in the District of Columbia after defeating (121-10-72) an amendment to bar it from the Capitol and other Federal buildings; sent it to the Senate...
...beer can be sold in the U. S. Capitol, why cannot it be sold in any other Federal building on Federal property throughout the land...
Last week air transport companies announced that their pilots could drink no beer on duty, regardless of Congressional assumptions. The National Park Service was ready to allow beer sales only in Wet states. The Post Office Department ruled that brewers could start their advertising campaigns immediately, provided they did not give the impression of offering premature sales...
President Roosevelt's interest in beer was not its ultimate legality but quick revenue for an empty Treasury. This he was already beginning to get last week as brewers lined up before Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol James Maurice Doran to pay their $1.000 license fees...