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Since the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment McKesson & Robbins, Inc. has been engaged in the distribution of wines and liquors on a nationwide scale. Since its earliest connection with this business, the policy of the Company has been to comply strictly with the spirit as well as the letter of every regulatory and taxing measure. In accordance with this policy, as soon as it became apparent to the executive officials of the company that there were irregularities in the collection of Colorado State liquor taxes, the Company communicated with the Governor of Colorado placing in his hands...
...chalice were immensely valuable, possibly 4th Century work. When he saw the Great Chalice he felt like Parsifal. Boiled down, his arguments in behalf of its historic worth are as follows: ¶ The decoration of the outer cup corresponds remarkably with other authenticated ist Century Roman pieces. ¶ The earliest known reproductions of the Eucharist, in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, give it exactly the form of this cup. Christians in 75 A. D. were already numerous but very poor. The outer cup must have cost a great deal of money which would only be spent on an object...
...earliest proclamation in the collection is of March 9, 1743, and issued by Governor William Shirley, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, announcing a "Publick Fast" to be held Thursday, April...
...Washington and Mr. Jones became Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee. With Manuel Quezon at his elbow. Chairman Jones wrote the act which gave the Islands a bicameral Legislature, a Cabinet of six, of which five had to be Filipinos, and promised to set them free at the earliest possible moment. That moment had to wait until the Democrats ruled Washington again...
...Dealers to put the city back on the Democratic map. This Nominee Kelly proceeded to do largely by promoting a grand jury case against Nominee Wilson charging that, as controller, he had diverted some of a $65,000 city appropriation into his campaign chest. Nominee Wilson, one of whose earliest and richest supporters was a contractor named Jerome ("Jerry") Louchheim, countered by insinuating that Nominee Kelly's backing was largely Jewish. On election day 715,560 Philadelphia voters went to the polls, the greatest number in the city's history for any kind of election. What evidently settled...