Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeal of Prohibition at any time in the near future is a flat impossibility. The repugnant proposal to permit States to dispense liquor will never prove acceptable...
...Judge Hoyt divides his time between a Hudson River estate and a Georgia pecan plantation, likes books, privacy and decorum. Last week when a tactless newshawk reminded him of his prize-winning predictions for Publisher Hearst, the new Alcohol Administrator declared with some feeling: "Whatever I wrote about the liquor problem in 1929 is water under the bridge, and I don't want to talk about...
...apartment of a man whom they had observed buying engraving chemicals in Manhattan. They found a complete counterfeiting plant, discovered their captive was William Watts, 42, long sought by the Treasury as No. 1 U. S. counterfeiter. A one-time druggist who began by engraving labels for bootleg liquor, Watts turned out banknotes so perfect they fooled tellers. In the last four years it was estimated he had circulated about $1,000,000 in bogus bills, including a $20 note with which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau fooled his underlings (TIME, Sept. 9). ¶In Newark, N. J. police headquarters...
...edge of their fold. Verne Marshall, crusading editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, did not object to Sioux Citizens having their gambling and highballs, but his nostrils quivered at the smell of bargaining between lawbreakers and officials. After a legislative investigation which resulted in the conviction of State Liquor Commission Chairman Harold M. Cooper for disposing illegally of State liquor seals. Editor Marshall early this year prodded Woodbury County (Sioux City) into a grand jury investigation...
Meantime in Des Moines a Polk County grand jury upped the number of State officials awaiting trial to five by indicting State Liquor Commission Chairman Bernard E. Manley on a charge of having sold a bootlegger 20,000 State liquor seals...