Word: hofbrau
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...disappointed German was to be found a dozen years ago struggling to carry on the first U. S. Hofbrau. In his dark-paneled restaurant on 30th Street, Manhattan, he would tell proudly of the days when he had persuaded Theodore Roosevelt to eat pigs' feet and calf's head, when he had warned President Taft, a great steak-eater, against digging his grave with his teeth. In his palmy days August Janssen owned 20 Hofbraus. He spent $1,000,000 advertising JANSSEN WANTS TO SEE YOU.* But in 1921 Prohibition was withering the Hofbrau trade. And more distressing...
...made, if it is not consciously formulated, that a slack period is an ideal time in which to force liquidation on borrowers. There has been a failure to distinguish between the character of debt which should be permanent, such debt which a popcorn vendor runs up at the local hofbrau. Debts on such enterprises as the Middle West Utilities, whether they are notes or bonds, should be freed from the liquidating impulse of the business cycle. If it be objected that this would mean a fundamental change in the credit mechanism, one can only reply that it is aimed...
...prohibition, for alcohol and drinking are all about them and they should be removed from contamination. In going about Munich it would be necessary for Consul General Curtis to do a perpetual zigzag in dodging from one side of the street to the other to avoid proximity to the Hofbrau, the Kunstlerhaus, the Ratskeller and even the Staats Oper where villainous beer is imbibed without a permit from Mansfield...
...dined at the Hofbrau one night...