Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians in the city's history have attained such widespread notoriety as Councillor Vellucci. His sensational proposals last spring to confiscate University's two liquor licenses, and to create a separate "City of Harvard" within the boundaries of Cambridge received publicity in several papers throughout the country and even attracted a CBS-TV cameraman to City Hall for one of the Council meetings. They also, as one might expect, earned him the reputation of a Harvard-baiter...
...brought peace. Meanwhile, by "buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were...
...LIQUOR PRICES will be boosted, first general increase since Prohibition that has not been brought on by higher Government excise taxes. Publicker Industries (Old Hickory, Embassy Club) and Joseph Seagram & Sons (Calvert, Four Roses) have decided to pass on rising production costs with 4% increase at wholesale level, or an average 35? more per fifth at retail. Rest of industry will probably follow suit...
Ready said Cosgrove had been "aggressive and a brow-beater" in his handling of gamblers and bars selling liquor to minors, but that he himself was of the same frame of mind as the sergeant about "gamemen and vice." He added, "that is why I became chief of police...
...article on the history of maids at the College, the following sentence, based on a Nov. 26, 1952, CRIMSON report of a contest for each House's favorite maid, appeared: "Mrs. Walsh from Lowell was chosen because, among other things, she built bookshelves and 'never took the boys' liquor without asking first...