Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money to his personal use-did not report it because he could not account for its spending. Next day the Bishop took a greater interest in proceedings. His own attorney pictured him a martyr who had spent every cent he could make and scrape together to defeat Smith and Rum, who could easily have reported spending the whole $65,300 but had not done so because it would have been deceptive to report $48,000 spent in Virginia by a local organization. When Attorney McNeill pictured him as a man of unshakable courage the Bishop smiled approvingly. His excited attorney...
President Vincent, who talks like a French university professor, has another little mission up his sleeve. Haitian trade with the U. S. is ten to one against his country. In his baggage President Vincent brought a great many bottles of Haitian rum. At every interview last week two or three varieties were produced, not for cocktails or punches but to be sipped straight and slowly like old brandy...
...suis trap modeste," said he with an elegant shrug, "to boast of the quality of our rum, but taste, gentlemen, taste...
...Haitians and most U. S. Marine Corps officers agree with President Vincent that Haitian rum is the finest in the West Indies. Aged like Scotch whiskey in empty sherry casks, it is the only rum to be distilled from the whole fresh juice of the sugar cane and not from sugar lees of blackstrap molasses. Because of this fact it is also the most expensive of West Indian rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen...
...West Indies named Alexander Hamilton. Banks were new even in Europe but this 27-year-old veteran of the Revolution knew all the banking there was to know. It took a pocket full of depreciated paper money to buy a twist of to bacco or a cannikin of rum and people had long talked of a bank whose stock would be subscribed in land. But Hamilton's bank was to be a specie bank or no bank at all. The president, directors and company of the Bank of New York were organized with $500.000 capital. Among the directors were...