Word: merriams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that liquor interests last week badly needed a new front man. On the eve of the Kentucky Derby fortnight ago in Louisville, an assembly of liquor men who make up the Distilled Spirits Institute received word from California that the State Legislature had passed and sent to Governor Frank Merriam an "antidiscrimination" liquor bill not unlike Missouri's. Prime purpose of the bill is to protect proud California's wine growers, but provisions are broad enough to exclude alcoholic imports from other States...
Their Derby almost spoiled, liquor men headed by full-faced, mustached Owsley Brown, president of Brown-Formon Distillery Co. and chairman of the Distilled Spirits Institute, penned telegrams to Governor Merriam asking veto of the measure. Joining in the protest barrage last week were the West Coast's two Governors Martin (Charles of Oregon. Clarence of Washington). At week's end California's Merriam still had the bill on his desk, called a conference of objectors to hear their views...
...underworld forces and all the reactionary elements, which in 1936 waged a slanderous, slimy, insolent, stupid and disastrous communistic campaign against President Roosevelt, plus a few nominal Democrats of mercenary inclination, now wage precisely the same sort of campaign against me and in support of you, as they supported Merriam in 1934 and Landon...
...Governor Merriam refused to issue a call for National Guardsmen but the State Legislature authorized a committee of five to act as mediators...
George Cushman, and Tom Campion were the other Crimson players who broke into the scoring column with one goal apiece while Junie Merriam, Ned Pickering and Jack Fuller scored for the Indians...