Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew a $100 fine and a 90-day jail stretch that was suspended provided he spends his next three weekends in jail. Said Junior later: "I tried some rum concoctions and they tasted like punch. They didn't act that way. I'm through with liquor...
...Baptist press for "ladling out saving grace with one hand while raking in the shekels with the other for flaming advertisements of syphilitic nostrums." He riddled one proposal that Baptists do business only with Baptists. He ridiculed Waco's Sunday blue laws, mocked how the town fretted about liquor sales while it licensed prostitutes. He seized avidly on the scandal of a 14-year-old Brazilian girl who, studying at Baylor and living in the home of its president, became pregnant and charged that she was raped by the brother of the president's Baptist minister...
Unemployment Benefits. In La Follette, Tenn., after severe unemployment forced the Federal Government to declare his county a "distress area," Sheriff Willie Chapman and his men raided several moonshine stills, found that the yellow corn meal used to make the liquor had been distributed by the welfare office...
...very careful," says Dr. Harold Vonachen, head of Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s medical department, "that you're not dealing with just the social phenomenon of martinis before dinner or drinking one too many on Saturday night." To discover the man who is having real trouble handling his liquor -and the problem strikes executive and machinist alike-companies brief supervisory personnel on the signs to watch for, such as frequent absenteeism (usually beginning on Monday), irritability, sloppy appearance. Supervisors are warned that sheltering the problem drinker does him a disservice...
...papers had gone counter to Gannett's publicly expressed views, F.E.G., as he was called, sighed to Vice President (now President) Paul Miller: "You know, Paul, sometimes I don't know about this autonomy." Tolerant Teetotaler Gannett's only inviolate command: his papers must never accept liquor...