Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arraigned in a Cambridge, Mass. district court last week, Harvard Freshman Frank pleaded not guilty to charges of driving under the influence of liquor, as did his companion Richard Devens, who appeared in court in pajamas and a black fur coat...
...trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled three members of the Board, exclaimed: "My dear, these things come high. You see, there are railroad fares and hotel bills and we have to take care of the boys." Joseph Weinblatt said, according...
...over small victories and busy with niggling activities pending what they believe to be the inevitable return of Prohibition. Last week many a Dry was gratified to hear a comparatively substantial gain by The Cause: the name and cheery figure of Santa Claus are to be banned in holiday liquor advertising in no less than 30 States. Research on this question was done by Ethel Hubler, editor-publisher of a Los Angeles Prohibition paper called the National Voice, who wrote to State liquor control boards wherever they exist. A model State, she discovered, is Iowa which permits no liquor display...
...polls by the thought of the native rum, aguardiente, distributed by candidates. It was to the immense chagrin of voters, therefore, that Provisional President Carlos Brenes Jarquin, a doctor of medicine, decreed last week that during next month's Presidential election there will be no free liquor...
From three salients of the U. S. liquor business last week came word of new enterprise, new success. Cheerful items from vendors of good cheer: Champagne Guild. Last year only one bottle of champagne was sold for every 40 potential U. S. sippers. Hoping to raise this average at least a bottle a year, leading domestic producers got together last month, formed an American Champagne Guild. Last week, comparing notes, they discovered that champagne sales had already started to rise, were 80% greater this October than in the same month...