Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City Col. Jacob Ruppert, whose Third Avenue plant has been kept spic & span through twelve Dry years, was "ready to produce the real stuff on a moment's notice." Other metropolitan breweries?Doelger, Lion, Schaefer, Loewer, Trommer, Piel?began overhauling their plants. Fidelio Brewery advertised its stock for sale with the observation: "Modification of the Volstead Act now seems assured." Conservative Wall Street brokers warned customers that good brewery stock was closely held, that the new issues were highly speculative. At the U. S. Brewers' Academy 22 grown men were attending classes of a technical course which would qualify...
Looking closely at a Pabst label one may see a large B inscribed on one of the hop leaves. It stands as a memento to one Jacob Best who started the business in the 1840s. In 1862 his granddaughter married Captain Frederick Pabst of the S. S. Huron. By the time the Chicago fire of 1871 left the Milwaukee brewers supreme in their territory Capt. Pabst had taken over the company and had his name painted over its portals. Capt. Pabst was an epicure, would rather sip good wine than quaff beer. So it was a proud...
...spent $1,261,412. For the same period Republican receipts were $1,938,821, expenditures $1,960,290. Since Sept. 1 new Democratic borrowings totaled $130,000. Unpaid debts on the 1928 campaign included $125,000 to County Trust Co. of New York and $115,250 to John Jacob Raskob. Notable contributors since Sept. 1: Bernard Mannes Baruch...
...Jacob Ruppert...
...John Jacob Raskob proposed ways to bring back prosperity: i) Repeal the 18th Amendment: 2) tax beer; 3) apply a 1½% general Sales Tax; 4) balance the Budget. Through Indiana Josephus Daniels cheered for his onetime subordinate in the Navy Department, at Frankfort, Elkhart, Wabash. Muncie. Philadelphians were begged by Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley to contrast the records of Hoover and Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George...