Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gemini. The Class of 1930 will vote not to hold a reunion, with one Alumni Association officer explaining, "Their class spirit just never seemed to jell." The liquor, already purchased, will be donated to the New York Mirror's list of the 100 seediest families...
Battlers in the cause of prohibition read Tap & Tavern, a trade journal of the liquor industry, with the same horrified avidity that anti-Communist crusaders bring to the Daily Worker. Last October Tap & Tavern announced with pride that Robert L. King, vice president and general manager of the Southern Comfort Corp.* in St. Louis, was going to Washington to be the top administrative assistant to Vice President Nixon. In his new job, Nixon announced, King would handle "considerable legislative matters...
Temperance organizations across the land rose to the attack like blind tigers. A hurricane of protesting letters swirled into the Vice President's office and the White House. Meeting in Chicago, the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church got off a wire: "No man connected with the liquor industry should be placed in such a position ... We do not feel that organized liquor traffic should have a place of honor and power in your Administration." Amen, cried the W.C.T.U., the National Temperance League and the National Temperance and Prohibition Council...
...distillery general manager which matters," editorialized the respected Christian Century. The drys were particularly disturbed lest ex-Southern Comfortman King bring his wet influence to bear on legislation (e.g., the Langer bill, which would put restraints on TV and radio advertising of wine and beer; the liquor lobby's efforts to reduce taxes on distilled spirits...
DESPITE the growing sway of TV and hifi, despite a bounding passion for sports, despite increasing crime, flourishing liquor consumption, marriages, divorces and other distractions, the U.S. somehow manages to keep on reading-or at least buying-more books. If the number of books published and bought were the only criterion, 1954 was a big year. Publisher's Weekly, the industry's statistician, guessed that 1953's alltime high of 12,050 new titles would be equaled or surpassed by Dec. 31. It seemed likely that 1953's record sale of an estimated 600 million copies...