Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shades of Ella Roole faded rapidly yesterday as attractive Mrs. Blsir Moody of Detroit, lightened the quiet background of the CRIMSON office with her youthful appearance. This was no Carrie Nation who came to speak on the evils of liquor; the girl in the brown and tan sports suit had charm, a new avenue of approach, which the recently formed Allied Youth Movement or, as one of her aides described it. Temperance Gone High Hat is using against liquor...
...education. After visiting hospitals and courts. We discuss in forums alcoholic on the system. Thus you get all the data which you need to make up your mind. After you have joined, you become allied with a competing post which provides the entertainment and spreads the truth about liquor. It is a grand chance to chance yourself with the temperance cause without the sledgehammer type of reformer. Do sea if any of the boys at Harvard aren't interested." A last smile and before we knew it. We were left with but a faint aroma to remind us of this...
...three most notable cases of new industrial financing under the Securities Act were: American Water Works & Electric for $15,000,000; Mathieson Alkali for $6,232,000; Glenn L. Martin Co. for $3,250,000. Investment trust stock accounts for more than half the registrations to date. The liquor industry is in second place, with mining third. The Commission has held up 43 issues offered for registration, due to their promoters' failure to supply all the facts & figures. Of these 34 are still held up. Until this spring Wall Street's unqualified statement that the Securities Act stifled...
...none of the 19 high-strung Derby entries was much disturbed. Throughout the night, Derby guests continued their yearly romp, the less restrained firing the annual barrage of empty bottles into the court of the Brown Hotel in spite of the fact that Kentucky is now wet and liquor is sold by the glass. Next morning light showers fell, sending the odds down on long-shot mudders. By lunch time the track was already packed. And although Jailbird Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone had been unable to attend with special Pullman-loads of friends & associates as of old, it looked like...
...liquor problem ever is to be solved, the government must remember the lessons of prohibition. They proved conclusively that the otherwise law-abiding burgher will not hesitate to purchase bootleg liquor if no other is available. Before relying on public assistance in exterminating the bootlegger, the government would do better to concentrate on securing an adequate supply of fairly priced liquor by rescinding exorbitant taxes and outlawing monopoly profits. Until such time as this is done, Joe and Tony will continue to flourish as of yore at the old stand despite all the expense which the government now designs...