Word: bourbon
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...were all characteristic of the ballyhoo preceding the release of this picture. Consequently, when Blockade finally appeared last week, the cinema industry justifiably anticipated a polemic sensation that would jolt other producers' self-imposed silence on controversial subjects from totalitarian government to the relative merits of Scotch and bourbon whiskey...
Interesting for many reasons, the Keystone State primary will be watched chiefly for the demonstration that it will give of C. I. O. strength. The Democratic leaders, split wide open, are going before the voters with two slates. On one, Thomas Kennedy is running for the Bourbon gubernatorial nomination with the support of both the C.I.O. and Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Opposing Kennedy is a Democratic gentleman named Jones who, in 1932, committed the crime of supporting Alfred E. Smith over Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Jones has the support of the regular Democratic organization which includes Governor George H. Earle...
...Gibraltar last week the Rightist Government sent an official announcement that El Caudillo Francisco Franco has expelled from Rightist Spain Francis Xavier Charles Marie Anne Joseph, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, Carlist pretender to Spain's vanished throne...
...policy toward the worker and capital alike." Boss Hague has been mayor for nearly a quarter-century and lately declared without conscious exaggeration: "I am the law." It so happened that Boss Hague was addressing a gathering of church-going constituents on juvenile delinquency when he dropped that Bourbon remark, but it has plagued him ever since in connection with his conception of "fairness" in the treatment of organized labor...
...Hollywood's Hays office, the Institute last month complained: "This Institute is, of course, composed entirely of producers of American whiskey such as rye and bourbon, and they feel that an imported product which contributes little or nothing to the economic life of the U. S. seems to be unduly favored. It is not their contention that rye or bourbon should be specified, but that it might be possible to use merely the term 'whiskey and soda' which . . . would, even in pictures with an English setting, be more correct since it is the form the British...