Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's a small-print clause in the Cambridge liquor license which prohibits singing in public saloons. This infringement upon a fundamental right of man is most distressing; some of America's best folk music was cased down the ways with the aid of suitable refreshment. Fortunately, the advent of the Cambridge ordinance has not succeded in extinguishing these venerable ballads. For the past three years, a group of Harvard undergraduates known as the Krokodiloes has met regularly to perpetuate the American tradition of the informal male quartet...
...that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first-year $39,000 (in 1925) to some $12 million currently...
Hiram Walker distillers got an injunction to stop him from selling it.* Webb filed a countersuit charging that the state's fair-trade law was unconstitutional. (During litigation Webb stopped retailing liquor, is uncertain now about starting up again...
...Last month; Hiram Walker got a similar injunction against Sloppy Joe's liquor store in Denver for selling Imperial whisky at $3.99-$4.50 a quart (fair-trade price...
...matter how the youngsters got the liquor, they still got it," Commissioner Frank Brier added. He confirmed Miss Driscoll's statement that "It's about time we got tough with these cafes that serve liquor to minors, regardless of what the circumstances might...