Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report on how to make the services more attractive to the kind of men they want to keep. One of the strongest proposals: maintain the old privileges of officer and NCO ranks. Recently, Secretary Wilson, as if he had never heard of the report, yielded to pressure-from organized liquor retailers-and banned sales of package liquor in service messes and clubs. Since package-liquor sales are a financial prop of officer and NCO clubs in the Navy and Marines, the order was one more chisel blow at badly chipped rank privileges...
...there were some interesting circumstances about the death of Moses Jones. In 1952 Sheriff Hill, named as the head of a bootlegging ring, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of "conspiracy to violate the Internal Revenue laws as they pertain to liquor." One of the most important witnesses against Hill was the same Moses Jones, who testified that the sheriff had tried to cut in on his small time, independent bootlegging operation. When the trial ended with a hung jury -ten for conviction and two against-Moses Jones wasted no time in removing himself from Clarke...
...M.P.A.A. come across with some sensible easing of the code? This month the organization plans to discuss a few changes, dealing mostly with some outdated restrictions on miscegenation and the use of liquor...
...Hands. Progressive Farmer dominates by giving farmers articles on everything from "Rhinitis in Hogs," "Bible Readings" and "Roughage for Dairy Cows" to "16 Ways to Beat the Feed Shortage" and "Poisons and Their Uses." Between pages and pages of four-color ads (beer and liquor are banned) are reader-participation contests, fiction, how-to-do-it articles, outspoken editorials and dozens of other features that fit within the magazine's editorial formula: "Stories [and articles] that are wholesome and inspiring without being goody-goody or pedantic...
NOVEMBER-Main Event. In Port Angeles, Wash., the state liquor board ordered the M & C Tavern to remove a sign hanging on the bar: "We don't have TV here, but we have a fight every night...