Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negroes or not, they had great hopes for Connie. When he was 15, he stood 6 ft. tall and weighed 180 lbs. He never touched liquor, tobacco or profanity; he was honest, liked to cook, did well in his schoolwork and yearned to be a soldier...
Falsified draft cards, drivers' licenses, and hunting and fishing licenses are being used by minors to obtain liquor, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...Cronin, proprietor of the Dunster Street establishment, said he now refuses to serve liquor to men who do not appear to be 21, "whether they have identification or not." The reason for this, Cronin revealed, is that "phony draft cards are being printed in Boston and sold for 50 cents...
Patrick F. Ready, Chief of Police, claimed that he has no knowledge of the printing and selling of false draft cards. He added, however, that if a dealer sells liquor to a minor carrying false identification, both the merchant and the minor will be liable to court action...
...practice in the past, the salesman explained, has been to let a customer have his liquor if he says be is 21 and looks as though he could be. He added that due to the crackdown announced by Chief Patrick F. Ready on Monday, the store's owner had ordered all clerks to demand identification from anyone who could conceivably be a minor. "You can't afford to be lax with a license at stake," he said...