Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georges Valot, secretary of France's Bureau for the Study of the Liquor Problem, completed a nine-month survey of the influence of liquor in the U. S. His findings: "Localities which are regarded as dry are invariably wet. Take, for instance, Charlotte, N. C. . . . open saloons and the most awful whiskey I have ever tasted. They make it out of corn. Three drinks of it will make a man climb trees. And Kansas City? Ah, Kansas City! I have seen the streets of Paris at their best or worst, but they are nothing like the streets of Kansas...
Banker Reno Odlin of Olympia, sleek and 37, was the Republican choice for Senator. Like his opponent, he is a U. of W. alumnus, a onetime State Commander of the American Legion. He drinks milk because a Wartime dose of mustard gas makes liquor unpalatable. A director of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Nominee Odlin during the campaign called public attention to the fact that Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt owns private utility stock. Since he is as conservative as Herbert Hoover, Washington voters will have no complaint against obscurity of issues in the Senatorial race this autumn. And since Washington...
...Arbor two years ago largely because as a political "angel" he had financed his party through long lean years of defeat. Instead, Democrats chose for Governor a Detroit attorney named Arthur J. Lacy. For Senator the Democrats picked Frank A. Picard, militant New Dealer and head of the State liquor commission, to oppose Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican incumbent...
...sounded the brusque, heavy voice of Rev. Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, 61-year-old Toronto Baptist. With reforming Fundamentalist fervor he was preaching to 2,500 people who crammed old Jarvis Street Baptist Church, and to 5,000 more in overflow meetings. Dr. Shields lashed out at the "liquor traffic," flayed the Premier of Ontario, kinetic young Mitchell F. Hepburn, who took office last July when beer and wine became legal after 18 years of Prohibition. Cried Dr. Shields: "We need to rally our forces. . . . The preachers will have to get into overalls and go to work. I propose...
Quick to turn the disturbance to his use, Dr. Shields quieted his congregation. "My friends," he boomed, ". . . Providence, in His wisdom, has permitted this exhibition so that thousands of people might see the utterly demoralizing effect of this liquor curse...