Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women's Christian Temperance Union figured last week that the U.S. is letting the war drive it to drink 17.7% more liquor than last year. Small, sharp beagle-eyed President Ida B. Wise Smith and the W.C.T.U. are back on the warpath again with a whoop and a hatchet...
Concluded Mrs. Smith gloomily: "The efforts of the liquor trade to entice thousands of new persons into regular drinking are showing results. With the brewing industry openly declaring its intention to make customers of the boys in service camps, we can expect that the rate of alcohol consumption will increase...
What had happened was that some 2,500 Bahamian natives had rioted down Nassau's swank Bay Street, smashing shop windows, helping themselves to expensive liquors, French perfumes, fine English fabrics. Said one excited spectator: "It was just like Pearl Harbor-it came so suddenly." Panicky merchants lowered their hurricane shutters and the British garrison police bore down on the mob. There was wild street fighting. Three of the rioters were killed, 40 arrested. The mob gradually retreated, with its stolen liquor, to native Grant's Town. But peace was not restored until the Duke returned and promised...
Several times Italian authorities complained that the correspondents were too gay, made too much noise, stayed up too late, bought too much liquor. When they left Siena the Excelsior Hotel management presented them with six bottles of champagne...
After Repeal, when Asher broke with Paul V. McNutt's local politicians, his noisy cafe, the "Wig-Warn," lost its liquor license. When HOLC foreclosed on him, he broke with Roosevelt and started X-Ray ("A Beacon for Taxpayers and Honest Labor"). In its five years its circulation has wavered between...