Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date warranted. After two years under a system of government guarantees, they evidently feared the experiment of again doing business as they had been doing it for 150 years without Federal regulation. Those who feared cried out and those who rejoiced-including consumers who got cheaper cigarets, cheaper liquor, better trade-in allowances on their cars-kept mostly silent...
...Acosta was fined $10 for throwing empty liquor bottles at passersby. Same year, he was arrested for tipsy driving but later exonerated. Backed by ex-Junkman Charles Levine, he started Acosta Aircraft Corp., was charged by New York with selling stock fraudulently. When his wife sued another woman for alienation of affections, and Acosta was named corespondent in a divorce suit, a New York Supreme Court Justice growled: "If it could be arranged to keep this aviator in the air at all times, it would be safer for the homes in this community...
...ugly problem of wage & hour differentials between the North and South was again to the fore in textiles and coal-complicated as always by excess capacity. Cement and fertilizer makers were nervous about prices. Copper men hoped to continue their curtailment program on a voluntary basis. In the liquor industry with its six codes scrapped price-cutting came early and easily...
...reproduce the two end panels of Lord Hastings' picture on the history of bootlegging (on one side a rum runner unloading, on the other a liquor truck lumbering away) so you omitted details of its christening and the name by which it is best known [TIME...
Before Georgia went to the polls May 15 for a liquor referendum, Rev. Henry Elmer McBrayer of Atlanta's suburban Lakewood Heights, unlike most voter Methodist ministers in the State, worked hard & long for Repeal. Last week Governor Talmadge certified that Repeal had been beaten by 243 votes.* Same day, Methodist McBrayer was suspended from his pastorate, charged with "aiding and abetting the sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage in violation of the discipline of the Church." Told to stand trial or surrender his credentials, he chose trial...