Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railmen pointed out that such a move would leave Philadelphia and Baltimore as one-road cities, something which their citizens would never brook. If there was any discussion among "financial interests," it must have been among the partners of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers for both roads...
...cases it declared as a dividend on its common stock last August-one case of 24 pints, preWar, for each five shares, payable the instant whiskey flows. Its trade position is assured by its old brands: Green River, Old Grandad, McBrayer, Old Taylor, Mount Vernon, Sunny Brook. Seton Porter, National Distillers' able, socialite president, further timbered his stronghold last month by acquiring the old Large and Overholt distilleries. And he has tied up with U. S. Industrial Alcohol by forming a jointly-owned distilling company, Penn- Mar-Kentucky...
Across the first fairway at St. Andrews runs Swilken Burn, the brook which has cooled the heels and heated the tempers of more expert golfers than any other in the world. Into Swilken Burn last week Craig Wood played his second shot of the playoff, a shot which, more than any other, helped decide the championship. Rather than waste a stroke, he took off his shoes and stockings, waded into the water with his niblick and played the ball. It landed near the edge of the green but Wood took three to hole out. Still rattled, he had another...
...maraschino cherries and lacquer solvents, Overholt has never done anything but make good whiskey. Thirty-one thousand barrels of Overholt went with the deal, giving National Distillers 70% of all U. S. bonded whiskey. Other National Distillers' brands: "Old Grand-dad," "Green River," "Mount Vernon," "Old Taylor," "Sunny Brook," and "McBrayer...
...thought he was bluffing on his power to compel an exchange of metal for paper, $604,408,985 in gold and gold certificates remained outside the pale May 31. This last-stand hoarding constituted a challenge to the Government's power and prestige which President Roosevelt would not brook...