Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once an important industry was ship-building at Portsmouth. A ship under construction is the motif of the State seal. But because no ship has been built in New Hampshire since the War (and not because the barrels in the seal-picture contained rum) there is a persistent movement to change the seal to New Hampshire's famed "Old Man of the Mountains...
...wages paid in cloth and rum...
...beach of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams' Cohasset, Mass. estate, Coast Guardsmen last week surprised rum-runners landing 600 cases of liquor worth $150,000. Some of the smugglers escaped into the surrounding marshes, some made out to sea in a swift, silent electric launch...
...House by at least 27 members, so that no State should lose Representatives. Rankin returned to his old criticism of the Constitution which decrees that representation shall be calculated according to the number of "persons" residing in a locality. He cried: "Is it right to give the alien rum runners and racketeers representation in Congress and take it away from Indiana, Tennessee, the Dakotas, Kentucky and Missouri...
...local territory. By paying for the long distance call, any broadcaster in the land can telephone Grand Island, have his station's frequency corrected free in three minutes. Incidentally the monitor station will help spot and uproot unlicensed wireless outfits such as U. S. agents last summer found rum-runners to be secretly operating from summer mansions on Long Island...