Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snapped: "Certain scientific facts may be misleading and damaging to young minds." Senator Vivian Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned all copyright privileges, leaving Drs. Waddell & Haag free to offer the books to schools in other States if they dared...
Died. Isidore ("Izzy") Einstein, 57, most famous Prohibition agent; ten days after amputation of his right leg; in Manhattan. With his partner Moe Smith, Izzy operated so successfully on what he called the "Einstein Theory of Rum Snooping" that as direct result of his raids 4,932 bartenders, bootleggers, speakeasy owners tripped to jail. Izzy liked to "play" streetcar conductor, gravedigger, fisherman, iceman, opera singer. He walked into the Democratic National Convention of 1924 (Manhattan) with a goatee glued to his chin, announcing himself as a delegate from Kentucky, found only soda...
...results were far-reaching. First Morgan stopped a particularly gross theft of Seneca lands, when shysters, with New York Senate connivance, rum and $200,000 in bribes, tried to defraud the Indians by paying $1.67 an acre for land worth $16. Then he published his classic study that gave for the first time "the real structure and principles of the League of the Iroquois." The book launched him on a career that made him ''the father of American anthropology" and "the greatest sociologist of the last century...
...cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company of a guard. After 'Ennry had hobbled back with...
...Hyannis, Mass., Rev. Carl F. Schultz of the Federated Church listed six causes for empty church pews: Rest, Radio, Riding, Relatives, Roomers, Rum...