Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indictments. In 1946 she badgered the county into grand jury investigations that produced 64 indictments against slot-machine operators and liquor racketeers. The same year she landed in trouble when she interviewed the widow of a Negro during the trial of five white men charged with killing him. Since the widow was a witness in the case, the judge found Editor Smith in contempt of court, told her: "I realize you are putting on a great campaign for law and order, but if you read history, you will see that the only Perfect Being did not make much...
Last night, the weather was cold and dry at Yale, but the campus itself was very much warm and wet as large crowds lined the fraternity bars off York Street. Although Yale's President had asked that the state liquor laws be observed, it seemed that anyone who could afford thirty-five cents for a beer, was served, regardless...
...HAVEN, Nov. 18--Despite President Griswold's statement yesterday, liquor was flowing tonight along Fraternity Row. A spot check of five fraternities tonight revealed that alcohol was being served to anyone who had the price of a drink...
Neither University nor New Haven police expressed any concern over the obvious serving of liquor to minors. One Yale policeman in one of the Colleges said he knew "nothing about Griswold's statement." "It's all news to me," he said when queried about possible enforcement of state liquor laws...
There has been editorial attack on Yale's "fraternities," but the News spent much of its space explaining why it, too, served liquor to minors. Comments on national and international affairs appear infrequently, and are of the crudest armchair variety. One of them, written after the Eisenhower break in the Stock Market, predicted an oncoming United States depression with the profound conclusion that "It need not be pointed out that if this nation suffered another depression of serious proportions, it would lose considerable influence in its effort to woo the world to capitalism instead of communism...