Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carped at her for not letting "anybody know which of her evening gowns she'll don." Once Evie and her husband, who runs a family investment company, went to a Saudi Arabian party "just boiling to get a drink," and found that, in accordance with Moslem law. no liquor was being served. Next day. she wrote an indignant "when in Rome" column, and her relations with Saudi Arabia have been strained ever since...
...University of Southern California). He is also the boss of one of the most potent political agencies in the U.S. As chairman of the California State Board of Equalization, Bonelli supervises the tax assessments of big businesses; as the board member for Southern California, he hands out all liquor licenses from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border...
...reasons for the falling out, the Chandlers drew first blood last October (TIME, Oct. 19) with a series of articles in their tabloid, the Los Angeles Mirror-denouncing Bonelli and his "saloon empire." Big Bill's board, charged the Mirror, displayed incredible laxity in freely handing out liquor licenses to racketeers and political cronies for only $525 each, and allowing them to be resold at the going rate of $6,500. Bonelli retaliated with a 15-page demand for retraction, hinted darkly that the Chandlers had tried to get his board to rule favorably on tax matters affecting them...
...fiercest battles was against its two afternoon competitors, Hearst's Herald & Express and the ailing Daily News. In editorials and news stories, all three papers constantly fire away (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952 et seq.) at one another. For example, in the middle of the Mirror's liquor-license series, Newsmen discovered that Mirror Movie Columnist Florabel Muir had herself sold a license in just the way Mirror had said was "sizzling and sensational." Columnist Muir promptly resigned (TIME...
Shortchanged. In Miami, three nights after he robbed Mack's Liquor Store of $46, a holdup man returned, pointed a pistol at Proprietor Herman Mack, told him: "I read in the papers where I got $600 ... I came back for the rest," made off with...