Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Senate passed (43-to-30) the beer bill, it made three changes: 1) a cut in the alcoholic content to 3.05%, the British tax standard for non-intoxicating beer; 2) inclusion of 3.05% wine, slipped in by California's McAdoo despite the universal opinion of vintners that such "wine" would be slop; 3) a prohibition on beer sales to minors, which would in effect give Federal agents supervision over state distribution...
...Beer of 3.2% compares as follows with famed pre-Prohibition brews: Pabst Blue Ribbon, 2.9%; Schlitz Pale, 3.1%; Anheuser-Busch Budweiser, 3.8%; Cream City Pilsener, 3.3%; Blatz Muenchener, 3.5%; Hammond Muehlhauser...
...conference the House accepted the Senate's wine amendment, the Senate accepted the House's alcoholic content for beer and dropped its no-sales-to-minors proposal. Thus a 3.2% beer bill was sent to the President for his signature. States in which beer sales can start: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming...
Already the Anti-Saloon League was preparing to test the validity of the Cullen Act before the Supreme Court. Big question: is 3.2% beer intoxicating in fact? If so, the court would be inclined to rule that the law is unconstitutional under the 18th Amendment...
Interested Parties. The Roosevelt farm bill, so drastic in administrative possibilities, immediately precipitated, hotter than ever, familiar arguments between interested parties. As emergency measures the President's bank, beer and economy bills were practically undebatable. Farm Relief, a hard old rock on which three other administrations stuck, loomed as the first dangerous test of White House leadership. Most rural Senators and Representatives agreed that it was "a pretty good bill" but nowhere was there any red-hot belief in its magic...