Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finest in the East," members of the University Band decided yesterday, was their own sobriquet, and not to be extended, even by implication to the malt liquor brow manufactured by the Crofts Ale Company...
This week's Buffalo teachers' strike for a minimum annual salary of $2,400 is but another clear portent that the American public, which spends seven billion dollars per year for liquor, will have to lend far greater support to its school system than the annual 2.5 billion it now sees fit to part with. No one was surprised last week when the United States Commissioner of Education stated that American education's paramount problem, and one that can be solved only by better salaries, is to improve the quality of public school teaching...
...drive for power. He bought politicians wholesale and had complete immunity from the law-from 1923 to 1926 Chicago had 135 gang killings, six arrests, one conviction, no executions. He gained control of gambling, prostitution, dance halls, dog tracks and roadhouses as well as the enormous beer and liquor business. The U.S. called him Public Enemy...
...many Torontonians, the committee found, go to movies that are not good for them to see. Furthermore, they bet on horse races, read naughty books that are banned in Boston, attend burlesque shows that are banned even in sinful New York, and drink liquor till...
...large collection of illegal drugs was seized in a police raid on Parkhurst's residence, 1572 Massachusetts Avenue, immediately after his arrest outside a Newton liquor store one week...