Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey City, ex-Mayor Frank Hague, onetime political Pooh-Bah of New Jersey (and longtime embarrassment to Franklin Roosevelt), tossed some pearls to a gathering of rookie cops and firemen. "Stay out of the clutches of money lenders and don't get tied up with liquor," advised his ex-honor. "That's why I was successful. I had will power...
...away with all liquor advertising in magazines and newspapers and on the radio...
Socially, Hanover is strictly a weekend town. There just aren't any women around. Girls begin to filter into waiting Dartmouth arms some time Friday evening, and by Sunday night most of the arms are empty again. In between there is plenty of liquor and plenty...
...Liquor stores did a rush trade. Practically every Canadian who wanted a drink had the price of a bottle, though it came high. The turkey supply was spotty; there were plenty of birds around Winnipeg, but few in southern Alberta, where growers were holding out lor fatter prices at Christmas...
Last week Curtis got off the wagon and for the first time decided to accept liquor ads, but only in 20-month-old Holiday. It has a different kind of readership from its more sedate Curtis sisters-and a different-looking balance sheet. Said President Fuller: "To add this new classification . . . will increase Holiday's serviceability both to its advertisers and readers." It might also help Curtis put money-losing Holiday in the black...