Word: mcbrayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Georgia went to the polls May 15 for a liquor referendum, Rev. Henry Elmer McBrayer of Atlanta's suburban Lakewood Heights, unlike most voter Methodist ministers in the State, worked hard & long for Repeal. Last week Governor Talmadge certified that Repeal had been beaten by 243 votes.* Same day, Methodist McBrayer was suspended from his pastorate, charged with "aiding and abetting the sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage in violation of the discipline of the Church." Told to stand trial or surrender his credentials, he chose trial...
Chicago was long on U. S. whiskeys, short on Scotch. Old Taylor, Old McBrayer, Old Grand Dad, Four Roses, brought $3 a pint. No Johnny Walker or Haig & Haig were in sight...
...whiskey. Some 80,000 of its 2,000,000 cases it declared as a dividend on its common stock last August-one case of 24 pints, preWar, for each five shares, payable the instant whiskey flows. Its trade position is assured by its old brands: Green River, Old Grandad, McBrayer, Old Taylor, Mount Vernon, Sunny Brook. Seton Porter, National Distillers' able, socialite president, further timbered his stronghold last month by acquiring the old Large and Overholt distilleries. And he has tied up with U. S. Industrial Alcohol by forming a jointly-owned distilling company, Penn- Mar-Kentucky...
...lacquer solvents, Overholt has never done anything but make good whiskey. Thirty-one thousand barrels of Overholt went with the deal, giving National Distillers 70% of all U. S. bonded whiskey. Other National Distillers' brands: "Old Grand-dad," "Green River," "Mount Vernon," "Old Taylor," "Sunny Brook," and "McBrayer...