Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Women's Christian Temperance Union, having brewed a new campaign against sale of liquor to the armed forces, last week pulled the cork with a pop. In Boston, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W.C.T.U. president, handed out excerpts from a letter written to an American prohibitionist last January by Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese naval air captain who led the air attack on Pearl Harbor. Under the heading "No More Pearl Harbors and No More Drinking," Teetotaler Fuchida wrote: "Because of my subordinate position, I did not know at the time why the Japanese high command chose that day. After...
Against the Fuchida-W.C.T.U. analysis there still stood the conclusion of the Government's Pearl Harbor investigation commission: liquor did not play a noteworthy part in the debacle of Pearl Harbor. The sad truth was that the forces on Oahu had been no better prepared Saturday morning than Sunday morning...
...campaign's listlessness was broken only by his primary opponent's attempt to show that, since Dr. Poling had run and lost for the governorship of Ohio on the Prohibition ticket back in 1912, he would be a bluenose mayor. Dr. Poling assured suspicious liquor dealers: "Your business is as legal as mine." He won the nomination handily...
...molasses voice flowed on: "You will be unable to use sugar, starches, oils or fats in your foods....Even the thought of them will be repulsive to you....You will not drink carbonated drinks any more, nor beer, nor liquor....You will end your bedtime snacks and your eating between meals. You will be satisfied with only half your usual quantity of food...
...office, and I left it wide open. The people of Galveston want an open town." Ambrose Lukovich, his successor, added: "As a reformer ... I don't think I would have been elected." When the committee asked Mayor Herbert Y. Cartwright what it should recommend, he answered: "Regulated prostitution, liquor by the drink and gambling...