Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advertising, the flossy handmaiden of Big Business, has long tempted certain rapacious New Deal reformers. But with the U. S. still clinging to Freedom of the Press, nothing had been done about advertising (with the exception of liquor) until last week when Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold produced a scheme which, snorted Columnist David Lawrence, "makes the late Huey Long, who tried to put a tax on publications of large circulation, look like an amateur." Trust Buster Arnold's scheme was deftly dovetailed into the long-expected announcement by the Department of Justice that its anti-trust suits against...
...witness, a brunette, Senta de Wanger, appeared in a greenish-gray sport jacket, green skirt, green hat. Miss de Wanger runs a liquor store at Hempstead, N. Y., near the Air Corps' Mitchel Field, L. I. She was sought out by absentee William Lonkowski, one of the few who was portrayed as a spy capable of digging out worthwhile information. To him and his wife German-born Senta rented part of her quarters...
Soon she noticed that Voss frequently visited her tenants. Miss de Wanger also noticed that the Lonkowskis spent much money on liquor and parties. One night she asked Mrs. Lonkowski where they got the money. "From the Government-the German Government," replied Mrs. Lonkowski. She and her husband vanished after U. S. customs and Army officers caught Lonkowski red-handed with military airplane plans, swallowed his denials, let him get away...
...Kelly approved of Billy Sunday, was a friend of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, engaged in frequent religious skirmishes with his fellow townsman, Unbeliever Henry Louis Mencken. For many years he crusaded against liquor, prostitution, Sunday movies, gambling, birth control...
...three liquor questions passed by large majorities, allowing the sale of liquor in the city and sales in taverns as well as package stores. Considerable swapping of votes was done, with votes for the liquor questions traded against anti-Plan E votes...