Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Hoover paid them their first Presidential visit in 1931. Following a brief inspection. President Hoover publicly labeled them "a poorhouse." Not bothering to mention the fact that U. S. Prohibition had ruined the Islanders by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum, the President left the three little Virgins to Civil Governor Pearson whom he had just appointed, sailed back to bigger headaches in Washington...
Just before dawn Executioner Deibler put on his silk hat and black cotton gloves, and a police official arrived with a priest, a prison barber, a glass of rum and a cigaret. These last Bandit Spada waved indignantly aside...
...reproduce the two end panels of Lord Hastings' picture on the history of bootlegging (on one side a rum runner unloading, on the other a liquor truck lumbering away) so you omitted details of its christening and the name by which it is best known [TIME...
...more local, and far more disturbing infringement on the moral atmosphere of Copperthwaite Street, is personified in one Charles Breen. Breen, affectionately termed the Proprietor of Parke and Tilford's by his Dunster House acquaintances, partakes freely of intoxicating potations at periodic intervals. Under the influence of demon rum, he invariably gives vent to his superfluous enthusiasm by standing on Copperthwaite Street at six o'clock in the morning, summoning all the vocal power at his command, and calling out random remarks concerning the intelligence, habits, and ancestry of Dunster men in particular, Harvard men more generally, and all college...
Born 67 years ago in Bald Mount, Pa., the plump, dour little merchant has cherished his farm-learned virtues, of which the dearest is Hard Work. He has spent his millions freely in a long war against Rum, Tobacco and other worldly evils, has set up a $25,000,000 Kresge Foundation to further his moral and philanthropic ends.* Offered a drink or a cigar, Mr. Kresge says politely: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others." Another Kresgeism: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf...