Word: rum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...placid Virgin Islands and some raised eyebrows in Washington. At issue was the appointment of Millionaire Democrat Ralph Paiewonsky, 53, to be Territorial Governor of the Virgin Islands. The question: How could Paiewonsky possibly avoid conflict of interest considering the fact that his family owns the islands' biggest rum distillery as well as wide-ranging island interests in real estate, movies, liquor, stationery and gift shops...
...matters turned out, it was not all that simple. Under sharper questioning, he testified that the family's distillery interests had been sold to the Schenley Corp., in which he and a brother held $250,000 worth of stock. A rum-distilling competitor, A. M. Brauer, took the stand to testify that Paiewonsky had once imported Cuban rum and transshipped it to the U.S. mainland falsely labeled as Virgin Islands rum, thereby dodging $1,000,000 in taxes. "He's totally unfit for any position of public trust," concluded Brauer. Answered Paiewonsky: he had indeed bought...
...than riding the ups and downs of raising vegetables. Refugee sugarmen from Cuba are jumping into the Florida mucklands to start anew after Castro grabbed their Cuban holdings. The Florida Sugar Corp. is setting up two mills and planting 2,000 acres, with $6,000,000 from the Bacardi rum interests. Osceola Farms, backed by three Cuban families, owns 4,400 acres and is negotiating for much more. The Cubans who are moving to the U.S. have a good example to follow. The Okeelanta Sugar Co. was started by two Cuban families in 1952 as a sideline to their island...
Since most users agree that the stuff is vile-tasting ("It's glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato...
...once did have strength and reasonable expectations. Today, for reasons that are only partly economic, it has turned sick and sour. When Connie Tyler, fresh out of Harvard, came to Hindon in 1900 as a cub reporter for the Courier-Freeman, the reigning Yankees - the old-line whaling and rum-trading families which regularly produced one Harvard professor, one state Governor and one well-bred alcoholic in each generation - had only begun to abdicate. Jostled from political control by their own Irish and Italian mill hands, they retreated to the banks and sulked. One by one they ran their family...