Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ghosts of rum-tippling, slave-swopping Early Americans arose last week, as Evolution has often done to plague contemporary pedagogy. To the School Board of Franklin. Pa. had been recommended a new textbook for the seventh and eighth grades-Socialized History of the U. S. by Charles Van Nest and Henry Smith. The board read the book, was divided in its opinion. Especially objectionable seemed two passages...
...Havre or Bordeaux and are paid on the spot. For Benedictine we are paid $1 a bottle, and we do not complain, I assure you Messieurs. We are told that these same goods are sold in America for $10 a bottle,* but we have no hand in the American rum-running industry and certainly none in its surplus profits...
...President Hoover's description of the former Danish West Indies is correct but Americans must blame themselves for the condition there. American laws have absolutely ruined St. Croix where the finest rum in the world was formerly produced. Everything stagnated after the Americans prohibited its manufacture...
...Rum. The Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...
What the Virgin Islanders want most from President Hoover is permission to revive their once-profitable trade in rum, bay and otherwise...