Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compared to a typical $4,000,000,000 in pre-Depression times. This increase of 62% is not due to customs collections which remain below pre-Depression levels. As Depression brought new functions of government it also brought new taxes. Biggest of them are liquor taxes, $644,000,000; manufacturers' excises $449,000,000; miscellaneous nuisance taxes, $83,000,000. But the biggest increase expected is in the collection of income taxes...
...Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine. "But I still don't like it," he snapped, declaring Prohibition would return...
...even soft-boiled eggs. Tea, toast and fruit juices are all right but that's about all. Drink lots of water. Don't take strong laxatives. The disease is not in the intestinal tract but in the respiratory system. Don't take liquor, of course, for it merely puts an extra load on the excretory organs...
Depression, by giving people other things to worry about, cut into the reformers' trade. While it is not impossible that U. S. opinion may some day be steered into rethinking its attitude on liquor, oratorical prohibitionists today find it hard to make themselves heard. In the big house in Rochester where Clinton Howard has been living alone without servants, he conceded last week that no other outstanding reformers of his kind are now at work...
...sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing police. In 1934 he staggered Britain's bluebloods by declaring from his seat in the House of Lords: "This House is a farce...