Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver last September the local manager of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., national distributors of drugs and liquor, went down in the office basement with an unemployed liquor salesman named William E. O'Toole whose brother is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. The manager handed O'Toole a check for $3,000 payable to the State in settlement of past due liquor taxes, which, according to a later audit, should have amounted to more than $22,000. The manager also handed O'Toole $3,000 in cash. "This is positively the last shakedown...
...deputy and investigators from the local district attorney's office, seized Fixer O'Toole, seized the check which he had hastily torn in half, the $3,000 of marked bills. Also seized was a letter from Secretary of State Carr acknowledging settlement of McKesson & Robbins' liquor taxes...
...products. Neither Canada nor the U. S. can expect the other to take its surplus wheat or copper. When the Canadians asked whether the U. S. would take Canadian fish, potatoes, butter, cattle, the answer was: "Unfortunately, we have enough. But we might take a little lumber and some liquor." Even on Canada's one big export to the U. S., newsprint and wood pulp, there could be no concession because that already comes in duty-free. In return for lumber and liquor Canada was not willing to take any greatly increased
...Blennerhassett cellars for liquor. Subsequently, someone knocked over a candle. Up went the hemp, up went the wing, up went all that was left of Harman Blennerhassett's mansion in the wilderness. In Canada, whither the Blennerhassetts had moved following the embargo of the War of 1812 and the collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes...
...Longmeadow, Mass., citizens counted up a half-year crop of 100 new babies, giving the town a sufficient increase in population to legalize another liquor store...