Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not go along with him for State repeal. Last week his latest protege, Governor Prentice Cooper, vetoed the Assembly's repealer. This deed may alter Mr. Cooper's political future, but it did not alter the legislators' minds. Crying, "We've got the liquor now: let's regulate and tax it!" they overrode Governor Cooper even as a Dry Assembly overrode Wet Patterson 30 years...
...only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...
...York's retail liquor trade was stunned last week when the State Liquor Authority enforced against several leading Manhattan stores a hitherto ignored section of the law forbidding liquor sales on credit...
...Clayton antitrust acts for 24 years, FTC has had more experience coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does not forbid actual purchase of physical properties...
Girls working in restaurants not selling liquor commonly receive a $12 wage and tips. In one establishment, where tipping is discouraged, a minimum wage of $14 prevails. Waitresses who are also required to set as salesgirls receive proportionately more...