Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea, the Communists in recent weeks have been doing much of their fighting with loudspeakers. Red messages blare across no man's land promising hot food, good treatment and warm shelter to Eighth Army troops who go over to the Red side. Sometimes the Reds promise liquor, women, steaks and even automobiles (make unspecified). But the enemy's loudspeaker campaign has been, to put it mildly, ineffective. He has broadcast Swedish music and talks in German to Dutch troops, the haunting strains of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny to unmoved South Koreans, and he has offered...
Texas' Galveston, once a pirate hideout, has earned an equally robust reputation in recent years for freewheeling vice, gambling, prostitution and illegal liquor traffic. The Galveston papers, the morning News (circ. 17,510) and evening Tribune (circ. 11,909), both owned by 87-year-old Financier W. L. Moody Jr., do not get excited about it. They take the view that the wide-open situation is what Galveston wants; any change should come at the polls, not through their crusading. But their little brother and Galveston County neighbor, the Texas City Sun (circ. 4,573), which is also owned...
...party of Abraham Lincoln, as it often roguishly describes itself, has maintained its spotless record. The last thing it gave Negroes was liquor for their votes in the Reconstruction era. Two days ago the Republican Senators voted, 41 to 5, to table a motion to alter the filibuster rule...
...Elliott Perkins, the present Master, follows the old Arabic custom of taking salt with one's friends; he passes around the table a large silver urn, the gift of Coolidge. The salt is no personal eccentricity of Perkins'; it takes the place of wine at High Table. With local liquor reguations what they are, the Houses are forbidden to serve alcoholic beverages, and thus instead of offering up a toast in wine, the High Table guest dips into the salt...
...Star seldom wastes anything, every day prints almost all the 200,000 words that file into its city room over the A.P. wire. Although its coverage of the government, Capitol Hill and the world is more complete than any paper in the city, its neat, restrained columns (where liquor ads are banned) are jammed with reports on civic meetings, mothers' clubs, high-school graduations and local bird life. Says Editor Benjamin M. McKelway: The last time the paper was "really wrought up" was when it fought the "free silver of the Bryan campaign...