Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge License Commissioners yesterday refused to grant the Smoker Committee a wholesale liquor license to purchase low cost beer. Despite this, smoker officials promise freshmen that beer will nevertheless be served at the Smoker...
...three-man liquor board turned thumbs down on the license on the grounds that the beer was being served to minors. The Smoker Committee was annoyed but not surprised by the decision since the board had refused a similar bid last year...
...down the streets the mob surged, bearing a gory bundle, the lifeless, shell-torn body of a teen-age boy. "Close down," rioters yelled. "Observe hartal [the strike]." Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters would yield and scatter, as though by a pattern, and then reform a few minutes later...
...soldier's wife at the moment of her husband's death. Overruled, Levie entered a plea of "temporary insanity" and came close to making it stick. Mrs. Smith, said a witness, "didn't know what she was doing" when under the influence of drugs or liquor; at the time of the murder she was "doped" with paraldehyde, a sedative...
...Editor Ragsdale is convinced that if gambling flourishes in Galveston, vice, prostitution and illegal liquor sales will thrive in its wake. He plans to continue to keep a sharp eye on the gamblers, who as a result of the paper's campaign have been forced to lay low. Says Ragsdale : "If they open up again, we'll go after them...