Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from the Judiciary Committee a bill to legalize the manufacture and sale of 3.05% beer & wine...
...Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood Peep Hole. A handful of woodpulps were junked, twelve published by Fiction House were suspended at one swoop. Babies: Just Babies was born. So were Beer, Metropolitan Mothers' Guide, Family Circle, Pastime, American Spectator, Brass Tacks, Common Sense . . . many, many & many another...
...Beer tax $125,000,000 Gasoline tax 137,000,000 New Economies...
...upping the normal rates. Majority Leader Rainey pooh-poohed the idea of passing any new tax legislation at the present session while Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee spoke of it as a "last resort." The Democratic position shook down to this: If President Hoover signs a beer bill, increased income taxes may not be necessary; if he vetoes it, taxpayers can blame him for added burdens...
...second biggest executive job. Beside him at his simple inaugural stood the two men who had made him governor-President-elect Roosevelt and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The former talked about "Al" and the latter about "Frank's Forgotten Man." Governor Lehman advised the Legislature to prepare for beer at once by passing legislation to regulate and tax its local sale when authorized by Congress. Said he: "Approximately 25% of the entire working population of the state is now unemployed. We are now forced to look to Washington for assistance...