Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Olney today has a shoe factory and six bars-which Mayor Emanuel G. Miller regulates by keeping a "shutoff list" of drunks who cannot be served liquor. The town is also squirrel conscious, not only because squirrel chowder is a favorite dish at church suppers but because hundreds of Olney's squirrel population are rare albinos...
...incidentally, learned more about American Lithofold. While he was chief of the city's Federal Alcohol Tax Unit, James B. E. Olson apparently found time to earn up to $6,000 as a vice president for the energetic St. Louis printing firm. The committee noted that New York liquor concerns whose taxes were collected by Olson gave their label-printing contracts to Lithofold. Quite a week for legality. Not so good a week for honor and decency in public life...
...Durante career had its seamy side, too. One big source of income for the trio was the Manhattan speakeasy they ran during Prohibition, a favorite gangster hangout. But Jimmy managed to dodge real trouble. The only time he was pinched for selling liquor, he moaned, "I'm brandied as a criminal...
...Liquor & Pearl Harbor
...Drunkenness: "From ancient times in Japan, it has not been considered shameful to drink liquor and become violent. But persons who drink and lose their restraint, changing from their ordinary characters, are not qualified to drink...