Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold six old ones on the Pacific Coast for $275,927: the Albany, New Orleans, Salem, Charleston, Huron, Frederick. Abe Goldberg & Co. of Seattle got the Charleston for $49,111.60, a record low price. Conditions of sale: the ships are not to be used for naval purposes or as rum runners...
With all the chaotic conditions now surrounding the enforcement of the Volstead Act, why not inquire something about the special privilege accorded this association, where real gin cocktails are served at the monthly club dinners, usually attended by 100 to 150 members, and then consider the wonderful Fish House rum punch? that appeared at the last New Year's Eve celebration...
...Bartender's Guide ("1887) carries this Philadelphia recipe for Fish House rum punch: ? pt. lemon juice; ¾ lb. white sugar dissolved in sufficient water: ½ pt. cognac; ¼ pt. peach brandy; ¼ pt. Jamaica rum; 2½ pt. cold water...
...League's president, Bishop Thomas Nicholson, urged "no quarter" for rum smugglers, declared: "I'm not for promiscuous killings, but I'm for the coast guard when they say 'We mean business...
...Coast Guard machine-gunner was branded "a miserable skunk." Congressman John Joseph Douglass declared: "We're not here to defend rum-runners. We're here to enforce the command of God: 'Thou shalt not kill.' " Orated one-time Boston Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald : "These men were bringing in liquor for New Year's Eve. They knew it would be consumed by Governors, Mayors, Selectmen, Judges of the Supreme Court-in fact by public officials everywhere." U. S. Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf of Rhode Island sent the meeting a telegram to the effect that the dead...