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Word: liquor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After hearing charges by the ABC against Cronin's and the Club Casablanca yesterday morning, the Licensing Board warned the two establishments that they would be dealt with severely if found guilty of further violations. Possible penalties, would include suspension or revocation of the state liquor license...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: State Commission Clamps Down on Minors' Drinking | 5/10/1956 | See Source »

Nest Egg. In Lubbock, Texas, Robert Lee was arrested for illegal possession of liquor after agents searched his farm, found bottles hidden in the turkey pen, under a rabbit hutch, in the chicken coop, under a setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...those who complain the most are Pennsylvania rummies. They just can't tell how late their bars are going to be open. State liquor laws specify that all taprooms close on standard time, which means that taprooms will be open an hour later by the clock in DST communities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Face Annual Mystery on Sunday | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

...enemies spared no smear in their efforts to unseat able, 43-year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes (out of 214,000 cast). But regardless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Smear That Failed | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Management's imprint on community affairs is still apparent in some old established company towns. In Dow Chemical's Midland there are no hard liquor bars because "the Dow family wouldn't like it." In some company towns, particularly in the South, management frankly uses paternalism as a weapon against unionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: COMPANY TOWNS, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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