Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into a convention at Kansas City went the Bartenders' International League of America. Out of the same convention emerged the Beverage Dispensers' International League of America. Thus in union labor circles was that musty old word bartender officially buried ten years after Prohibition had legally killed an artful vocation...
Explained Emanuel Koveleskie, who represents this veteran union with the American Federation of Labor: "The old-time saloon bartenders still are tending bars, but as soft drink and soda jerkers, so in the interest of accuracy we are changing the name. In New York we still call them bartenders' unions. In Missouri they are beverage dispensers' unions. In such states as Kansas we don't even have any organization any more...
After 24½ days, No. 4113 had made five round trips between Kansas City and Birmingham on the same fire, more than doubled the old record, traveled 7,350 miles...
...fresh-faced young California woman at the Department of Justice in Washington. The certificate showed that President Harding had appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt to be Assistant U. S. Attorney-General in charge of prison conditions, tax cases, Prohibition prosecution. Prohibition was barely a year and a half old. With three assistants Mrs. Willebrandt's division was the Department's smallest. That year saw 10,000 Prohibition arrests. In the field were 608 U. S. Dry agents, operating on an appropriation of $7,100,000. Popular was the jestful question: "When does Prohibition begin...
Trixie Friganza, a survival of the age which the Almanac lampoons, floats laughably about the stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated...