Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorkers rubbed their eyes last week when in full-page newspaper spreads they saw itemized the names and prices of 63 well-known wines, whiskeys, brandies. Also told was how, when and where the liquor could be purchased-from Park & Tilford, oldtime fancy grocers, "if and when Repeal comes." A $10 deposit would guarantee delivery of a case of Old Grand Dad ($71.80), White Horse Scotch ($39-77) or a dozen bottles of Sauterne ($28.40) "as soon as legal." What startled many a reader was not Park & Tilford's high prices, for most of the items could be duplicated...
Risk there was none. The Department of Justice on Sept. 10 had ruled that, although the 18th Amendment remains on the statute books until 36 States ratify the 21st, "no prosecutions will be instituted . . . provided the 'if and when' clause as a condition precedent to Repeal is made specific." The Post Office Department also winked, agreed to deliver mailed copies of the advertisement because "something is contemplated which is not yet legal in fact, and therefore a legal impossibility...
...learned that the Spanish Wine Institute has spent $700 for a set of U. S. telephone books, planning to mail to each & every one of 19,000,000 subscribers a gaudy pamphlet lauding the virtues of Spain's fine wines. In the U. S. last week, as Repeal loomed but one month ahead, liquor dealers were concerned not with the demand for their goods, Spanish or otherwise, but with who was to sell what...
...largest liquor dealers in the U. S. They stocked tycoons' cellars from Manhattan to San Francisco. Hard hit by the loss of this profitable trade, they expanded their grocery and restaurant business in the last decade, but at the first hint of repeal more than a year ago President Gordon Stewart began to renew his European contracts. Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte interests sold Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers...
...particularly significant in view of the special session of the Massachusetts Legislature which he will call not later than December 6 for the purpose of establishing regulations for the sale of all alcoholic beverages. On that date, the last of the four remaining states whose assent is necessary to Repeal will have taken a vote, and liquor regulation will have been put into the hands of the legislatures of the several states...