Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Risks. The hard facts beat home-neither the times nor the conciliatory approach were right for labor organizing. As the depression deepened, Green spoke hopefully of better times, said he believed that legalization of beer would bring them. He added: "Millions of bottles would be required to distribute the product and would give employment to a great number of glass blowers...
There, surrounded by steer horns and bottles that once held "Judge" Roy Bean's beer, he wrote books of folklore that made him the Southwest's most raucously successful cultural historian ("The lies I tell are authentic"). On his door hung a sign: "Office Hours: Irregular...
...seventh day, a game didn't seem official without Casey trudging unhurriedly in from the bull pen. Big Hugh Casey, who weighs 219 lbs. and runs the Dodgers' favorite beer parlor in Brooklyn, is a man of immense calm. There were often men on bases when he came in; but Casey had a tavernkeeper's instinct for quelling disturbances. He pitched in six of the seven games (another record), won two of them, saved another...
Robert L. Jones '47, secretary of the Boot and Wing Club, a group which meets every Wednesday night to talk over old times and drink beer, had said that some of the members would jump if funds were forthcoming...
...public statement, the Methodists noted that the Halsey memoirs, written with the help of Journalist J. Bryan III and serialized last summer in the Saturday Evening Post, showed the Admiral as a confirmed drinking man. He liked an occasional beer or Martini but his staple was Scotch and water. Admiral Halsey was quoted as saying: "There are exceptions, of course, but as a general rule, I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink...