Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Architect Robert Montgomery Brown, who found that his friends were drinking up $2,400 worth of his liquor a year, decided to ask guests to sign chits for their drinks, receive monthly accounts payable in return drinks. Said Brown: "It equalizes the drinking and discourages guzzlers...
President Truman, whose plea for new restrictions on distilling had been turned down by Congress, appealed directly to the liquor industry to limit itself. But the distillers weren't impressed. They knew that preliminary estimates on the 1948 wheat crop were so favorable that last week the grain market had a severe slump (see Col. 3). They could quote Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's own optimistic testimony (on the European Recovery Program) that grain supplies were ample. They could point to foreign distilleries using grain for whiskey (for export to the U.S. for dollars...
Died. Josephus Daniels, 85, "Tar Heel Editor," World War I Secretary of the Navy (his Assistant Secretary: young Franklin D. Roosevelt), onetime (1933-41) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; of pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Secretary Daniels disturbed Navy traditionalists, outlawed liquor on Navy vessels (a, rule still in force), took pride in the Navy's record of transporting all U.S. troops to Europe without a casualty. A professional journalist from the age of 18 (he became editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894), string-tied Editor Daniels was a folksy foe of Republicans, booze and vested interests, championed...
What happened to him after that was quite unusual in Kansas. State highway patrolmen, who ordinarily pay no mind to citizens bringing in small amounts of liquor, stopped his car and searched...
When they found the whiskey they explained, a little sheepishly, that they had mistaken Hass's 1940 Lincoln coupe for the car of an out-of-state bootlegger. They were sorry for Hass, they said, but they hauled him before a county judge, who confiscated his car, his liquor and fined...