Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago company put up pickles in 20 flavors of liquor (nonalcoholic). Those who liked their pickles straight could down them and taste bourbon, brandy, rum or Scotch. For mixed-picklers, there were Manhattans, Martinis and Daiquiris...
...Cousin Bertie McCormick's Tribune to plump for Roosevelt in '36, '40 and '44, when the Trib was denouncing him. Daughter of Reaper King Cyrus McCormick and heiress to his millions, "Aunt Anita" Elaine is the daughter-in-law of James G. ("Rum, Romanism and Rebellion") Elaine. She lives in a cavernous house on East Erie Street, is rarely seen in Chicago society, but gives occasional decorous parties, such as her dinner two weeks ago for 70 guests, including Henry Wallace and his junketing party of European left-wing politicians...
...government and PRIDC are also trying to expand existing Puerto Rican industries. To help the rum industry recapture part of its $14 million wartime U.S. market (when U.S. drinkers had to buy rum to get a bottle of Scotch), the island government will spend $750,000 this year on advertising and promotion. Then there is the tourist business, which the government hopes will bring the island an annual income of $16 million by 1952. With tourists in mind, PRIDC is putting $5,000,000 into San Juan's new Caribe Hilton Hotel (300 rooms...
...second helping. Fabulous tales are told of his capacity for alcohol (an old Washington acquaintance says he once saw Muñoz down 26 Scotch & sodas in an evening). But as Governor he has tapered off. Nowadays he takes only two or three straight shots of rum or brandy as an appetizer, and dilutes his wine with water. Muñoz, a busy chain-smoker (Lucky Strikes), has lately surprised his friends by breaking the endless succession of cigarettes with an occasional cigar...
Cannon died a poor man in 1944, all but forgotten by a new generation which was facing fiercer foes of the moral order than Demon Rum. But only 15 years before, Maryland's Senator William Cabell Bruce had risen on the Senate floor to speak the indignation that many another angry church member must have felt: 'God forbid that any clergyman of this kind should ever come near me for the purpose of exercising any office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect...