Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready," announced New York's Governor Lehman as the State Legislature settled down to enact a liquor-control law. Tammany Hall, caught by an alert press trying to mix beer and politics, fell in behind the Lehman control plan...
...Missouri's Governor Parks signed a beer bill under which the great St. Louis breweries could promptly open. ¶The malt syrup industry started a drive to hold home-brewers in line on the plea that their domestic product was cheaper and stronger than the commercial article. ¶From Florida Col. Jacob Ruppert, president of the U. S. Brewers' Association, whose Manhattan plant is set to turn out 2,000,000 bbl. per year, announced: "We'll find the old saloon completely out of the picture. We'll find prototypes of the German beer garden springing...
From the moment President Roosevelt called for a copy of the Democratic platform, clipped out its beer plank, signed his name to it and sent it to Congress as a special message, there never was any serious doubt about the quick return of beer. Inescapable was the necessity for new revenue to help balance the Budget. Estimate of the Government's first year's income...
Hero of the beer bill's prompt passage by the House was chunky Representative Thomas Henry Cullen from a tough waterfront district in Brooklyn. A square-faced, hard-boiled Democrat, with a lower lip like Maurice Chevalier's, he is the House's Assistant Majority Leader. In disgrace because of his stand against the President's economy bill fortnight ago, he retrieved some of his lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed...
Representative Cullen led off a three-hour debate by reciting the threadbare arguments for beer as a revenue-raiser, "a vital step toward prosperity." Drys raged and roared impotently. Swinging to his feet Missouri's stocky Claiborne announced: "As a good drinking man I'm interested in this beer bill for drinking purposes. I not only want a good glass of beer but I want a good drink of whiskey and I hope the time will come when I can walk into a decent saloon and get both." Then he sat down, chewed his cigar impatiently...