Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four minutes to two by the Cabinet room clock as President Roosevelt sat down at the head of the long mahogany table, flicked a red ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added...
...Milwaukee, Cream City Brewing Co. announced it would fly its first two cases of bottled beer to the White House. Explained the manager: "That's our way of showing appreciation." From George J. Meyer, president of a Milwaukee bottling equipment firm, went a $5,000 check to the Democratic National Committee "for keeping its promise...
...return of beer not only stirred the nation's economic interest but raised a tangle of legal questions for definitive answers to which President Roosevelt had to look to the Supreme Court. Major paradox: the new law assumes that 3.2% beer is no more intoxicating than ginger ale, yet the Federal Government stands pledged to protect from importations any State that assumes otherwise. A brewer in a Wet State may start to ship his product through a Dry State to another Wet State, only to have the Dry State confiscate his freight as intoxicating and call upon the Federal...
...same interstate commerce complication lurked in the distribution through the mails of publications carrying beer advertising into Dry states. If 3.2% beer can legally pass through the mails as parcel post, does it become intoxicating and therefore non-deliverable the moment it crosses a Dry State line? Other legal questions yet unsettled...
...beer is non-intoxicating, can it be sold at Army posts in Dry states, aboard Naval vessels in Dry harbors? Last week Army Corps orders were issued for its sale at Fort Leavenworth...