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From a distance of 3,000 miles the game in Europe strongly impressed Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King last week with a desire to prevent Canada from being blamed in any case for starting a new World War. The proposal to add oil to the Sanctions brew was not made by "The White Knight of Geneva," handsome young British League of Nations Minister Captain Anthony Eden, nor by his Government. With the seasoned diplomat's flair for keeping his own fingers out of the broth, Captain Eden went around to the League's International Labor Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SANCTIONS: Something Silly | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

Unique development of the convention's lighter side was a free, three-day beer party given by Anheuser-Busch on the grounds of its famed brewery on the banks of the Mississippi. More than 100,000 guests were served by 80 bartenders who put out the brew so fast that it had to be supplied from freight cars shunted up on a siding. Host was Adolphus A. Busch Jr., whose aged grandmother Lilly, caught in her native Germany when the War broke out, was callously stripped and searched as a spy at Key West when she finally got back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Elmers in St. Louis | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Since beer is a cheap, bulky commodity, most breweries depend on a local market. Pfeiffer, which works at top speed to brew 400,000 bbl. a year, is more typical of the industry than Anheuser-Busch, Pabst or Schlitz. Pfeiffer's president is William George Breitmeyer, nephew of the German brewmaster who founded the company. Shy and laconic at his desk but jovial away from it, Brewer Breitmeyer has a simple explanation for his own success: "I have only one hobby. I collect friends." An aid in this hobby is his stock of old German drinking songs, inherited from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Beer Listed & Canned | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...precedent is applicable, when do I refuse to follow it? If no precedent is applicable, how do I reach the rule that will make a precedent for the future?...I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. There, before us is the brew. Not a judge on the bench but has had a hand in its making....In the field of constitutional law, the method of free decision has become, I think, the dominant one today. The great generalities of the Constitution have a content and a significance that vary from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Old Men in Black | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...half the men in the Houses are minors, half of the market is immediately curtailed. Friends will not separate for meals, and the red tape involved in proving one's age tends to make a pleasure a burden. Secondly, beer was advocated before the repeal of Prohibition when 3.2 brew first became legal. The enthusiasm with which undergraduates greeted the harder liquors took away from the attractions of beer. And last of all, beer has failed to catch Harvard's fancy. This may be due to the age restrictions or the cheapness of beer elsewhere, but it has not been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BITTER BEER | 10/17/1934 | See Source »

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