Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delighted to accede to the liquor industry's request to be taxed. Under the recent revenue bill the tax on distilled liquors is raised from $2 to $2.25 a gallon for spirits tax-paid after July 1. This horrified the retail liquor business because it meant that any dealer with large stocks tax-paid before July 1 would have a price advantage. So Congress was asked to add a 25? floor tax to such stocks to avoid demoralizing the price structure. Last week the Senate Finance Committee favorably reported the bill...
...waiting police. At week's end, former Labor Leader Mahan was arraigned on ten charges, held in $8,500 bail. The Journal-Post, satisfied that window-smashing was over, prepared to expose other rackets. One thing it wanted explained was why Kansas City gambling joints scrupulously served no liquor, while liquor joints scrupulously allowed no gambling...
...armed a number of citizens as special police officers during a bloody streetcar strike, survived a recall vote that followed the disorders and picked up a local reputation for political effectiveness. In 1928 he jumped the Democratic Party to work for Mr. Hoover. Mr. McNinch is against liquor (he keeps a vacuum jug of milk on his desk) and Mr. Al Smith is not. President Hoover rewarded Frank McNinch with a seat on the Federal Power Commission...
...Birmingham, Ala., James Cannon pugnacious, 73-year-old Prohibitionist, politician, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, announced that he was retiring from his ecclesiastical duties. Explanation: "I dedicate the rest of my powers to the fight against the liquor traffic...
...Liquor...