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Word: repeals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of Repeal, now many months heralded by brassy clarion sounds and the low moans of boot-leggers, is the finish of a flaming column in the scroll of American delusion. Presumably, it ushers in a day of betterment: there will come the fall of the beer baron and rum runner; the stomachal conditions of the ailing members of every University in the country will be improved; revenue will come to the government, and wine to the table; and finally, the course of a few generations may see the people of the nation taught to appreciate fine liquors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPEAL | 12/6/1933 | See Source »

...What am I going to do? All my audience is out celebrating repeal," said Francesca Bruning in an interview with the CRIMSON last night. Miss Bruning is now appearing at the Shubert Theatre in "One Sunday Afternoon." When the wide awake reporter suggested, "We might go out and celebrate too," Miss Bruning asked: "Will you get my manager pie-eyed for me?" The actress said she had already been out with several Law School men, and had found them "very cute with their big vocabularies and little brief cases. But Business School students are too fast for me--yes, much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Students Are Too Fast, "Says Miss Bruning, Star of "One Sunday Afternoon" | 12/6/1933 | See Source »

...other places so fortunate as to have procured a license by the time liquor went on sale were doing a rushing business; they did not report any violence or undue drunkenness before eleven o'clock. According to Mr. A. W. Nolet, manager of the popular Club Touraine: "This repeal is going to be a great and fine thing, and it is going to do away completely with the speakeasy. Many people say that repeal will not end the speakeasy; they claim that it will be able to undersell the legal restaurants and taverns. This is impossible, for to exist they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry Repeal Night Sees Boston Well Submerged in First of Legal Liquor | 12/6/1933 | See Source »

...cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least 200,000,000 gal. of something seems certain. That that something will be mostly whiskey is the bet of most of the shrewd gentlemen waiting on the line for the Repeal signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rum Rush | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up one of the seven telephones on his desk and listened to Mr. Porter's suggestion that National Distillers, aside from the dynamite of Repeal, was a pretty good thing at around $16 per share. Mr. Day cocked an eye at the ebony elephant on his desk. Mr. Porter needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rum Rush | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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