Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bootlegging. "Largest and best paying racket in Boston." An annual $60,000,000 is spent in Boston's 4,000 speakeasies or paid to 5,000 Bostonian bootleggers. The liquor ring is bossed by a onetime policeman who on the side dabbles in a trucking business, restaurants, cigar stores, pool rooms, an amusement arena, prize fighters...
...reelected. He voted for Tax Reduction (1924, 1926, 1928), Flood Control (1928), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Reapportionment (1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He voted against the Soldier Bonus (1923). He votes Dry, serves no liquor in his own home, takes a drink out when offered. Legislative Hobbies: Tariff and tax protection for Pennsylvania industries; military affairs; immigration...
When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed...
...Liquor Forces Well Financed
Fourth, during the entire fight, and down to the present moment, the liquor forces have had one great advantage. They have been well financed. The liquor interests have always provided ample funds. No one has had a direct financial interest in fighting against liquor. The dry forces have always had to pass the hat. Gradually, however, all socially minded people have come to see the social side of the question, and they have responded to appeals for voluntary contributions more and more generously. Millions of small contributions have come in. But the dry forces have never had funds enough...