Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wagner. Former Governor Thomas E. Dewey, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall have so far said no. That left State Attorney General Jacob K. Javits, four times a New York Congressman and the only Republican to win statewide office in '54. Jack Javits was willing and eager, but there were some counts against him. Some state G.O.P. leaders felt that his congressional record had been too "liberal." Moreover, there was the fact that if Javits went to the Senate, Governor Harriman would replace him with a Democrat. But on the whole, his chances...
Serious drinkers like to say that there are three kinds of whisky-"cookin' whisky, drinkin' whisky, and sippin' whisky." To such famed connoisseurs as Lucius Beebe, Novelist William Faulkner and onetime Vice President John Nance Garner, the best sippin' whisky of all is Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, a drink as distinct from standard bourbon as bottled in bond is from Old Popskull. Sparingly distilled by a secret, century-old formula in a quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Jack Daniel's has never tried to crash mass markets, never...
Prizewinner. For years Jack Daniel sold his whisky only in Tennessee and neighboring states. But in 1904, a case found its way to the St. Louis Exposition, and there among the finest names in whisky, unheralded Jack Daniel's won first prize. After that, Daniel's went right on winning awards, but the distillery did not try to capitalize on its growing fame. With nephew Lem Motlow running the business (uncle Jack had crippled himself in 1905 angrily trying to kick open his balky office safe), it still held to the old methods, turned out fewer than...
...Forbid." Since then, with time out once again for World War II, Jack Daniel's, now run by Lem's four sons...
Last week bourbon-proud Kentucky, which has been casting envious eyes on Tennessee's Jack Daniel's for years, paid it the ultimate compliment. Louisville's Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. (Old Forester, Early Times) bought out Jack Daniel's stockholders and its Motlow brothers, who owned 55% of the company, took control of the distillery. The price: $20 million in cash. Jack Daniel's 54-bbl. daily production is only a drop in Brown-Forman's (500 bbls. daily) bucket. But the name is well worth the price. Brown-Forman President George Garvin Brown...