Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year things looked bad for the Republicans. A scandal in the state liquor monopoly had rocked the administration of Governor Frederick G. Payne, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator. Three days before election, the former chairman of the Liquor Commission, a Payne appointee, was indicted. More important was the fact that the party was splintered by factional disputes, including the bitter primary campaign in which Payne defeated Senator Owen Brewster. The Republican nominee for governor, State Senator Burton M. Cross, had three opponents-two disgruntled Republicans running as independents and an ex-Republican running as a Democrat...
Fred Alger made his biggest political mistake four years ago. During the Republican administration of Governor Kim Sigler, Alger got Soapy appointed to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan state liquor control commission. He misjudged Soapy's ebullient New Dealism, his youthful enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor...
...battle stars and a Legion of Merit, Murphy got him a job as deputy director of OPA in Michigan. By this time Soapy was on the make for governor, and-when the OPA job expired-he gladly seized at Fred Alger's offer of the spot on the liquor commission. At the same time Soapy Williams, the boy wonder of three schools, rounded the corner and came face to face with practical politics. He aligned himself with two highly practical Democratic groups which needed nothing so much as a popular candidate. They were the C.I.O.'s Political Action...
...Francisco, when a youthful gunman walked into his store. Liquor Store Operator Thomas Lagios groaned: "Oh. no. not again' was told: "Yeah, again." by the bandit, who cleaned the cash register of $64, ordered Lagios into a back room where he piled ten cases of beer on top of him-for the second time in two days...
...personality is a mixture of puritanism and passion: the two qualities are powerful partners. Though she sometimes swears like a trooper, she does not like to hear others swear. She sips at a drink occasionally to be sociable, but she is eloquent on the evils of hard liquor. She seldom understands a double-meaning joke, and if she does, she is annoyed. While on location for The African Queen, Director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart would often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily: "You boys think...