Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tens of thousands, to my certain knowledge, in the United States of America this evening. There never was a time when, in your history, the devil had more nearly his right of way everywhere than he has under the Stars and Stripes today. Your beer parlors?your flood of liquor that is demoralizing your country?are like ours...
...believe in fairies or panaceas or economic magic or in guaranteed profits or in price-fixing or think that a series of rules embodying in one form or another 'Thou shalts' and 'Thou shalt nots' will prove any more successful than they did when applied to the liquor traffic...
Until last week no U. S. Roman Catholic could join the Knights of Columbus if he subscribed to Socialism or took part in the liquor business as bartender, brewer, distiller, liquor-maker's employe or gin-shopkeeper. At the 52nd annual convention of the K. of C. in Detroit last week the ban on Socialism stood, but the 279 delegates voted to relax the liquor rule. Henceforth a Knight may sell spirits, in sealed containers to be consumed off-premises...
...Kaplan, managed Hearn's capital, and a store executive named Leonard Ginsberg looked after the merchandise, President Levin started a series of shrewdly aggressive promotion campaigns. In two years business had picked up enough to keep 1,000 clerks busy. Last week President Levin opened his enlarged wine & liquor store, said to be the biggest in Manhattan...
...Many a corporate chief executive is annoyed by too many vice presidents?but not President Seton Porter of National Distillers. Indeed, President Porter has been hard put to find bright young men who knew anything about the liquor business except consumption. Last week, however, President Porter created two new vice presidencies, one for Arthur W. Loasby, onetime head of old Equitable Trust and chairman of National Distillers' executive committee since 1924; and one for Ross C, Treseder, who knows a lot about drink but not hard drink. Liquor-man Treseder used to be vice president & general manager...