Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment was ratified by a 114,000 majority. Even Senator Sheppard's own Texarkana turned Wet against him. Simultaneously the Texas constitution was amended to permit sale of 3.2% beer...
...looks as if the College dining halls would serve nothing stronger than milk this fall. According to Massachusetts' hastily drawn law regulating the sale of beer, the 3.2 beverage cannot be sold to anyone under 21, which rules out most undergraduates. While the law is universally ignored in the State, it is felt that a College should do no wrong...
...machines were ordered. The millions of unsold tickets were over printed thus: "Cancelled - But the Duke of Atholl in vites the public to buy this specimen ticket for 10s. Solely as a memento of a commendable effort to assist British charities and upon the basis that the proceeds of sale shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Ticket buyers, confident last week that they could trust His Grace to do the sweepstakely thing, chuckled at the un successful efforts of London journalists to pin him down...
...floor broker for Marshall, Campbell & Co., they gave an order to buy 5,000 shares of OWS (Owens Distillery). Guilelessly ignorant that no such firm existed, he asked directions to the post where it was traded, rushed to execute his order. On the quotation board the "last sale" of OWS was duly recorded at 14. New Broker Ross asked the OWS "specialist" to quote it. "14-15" (14 offer, 15 bid), said the broker. "Take it!" cried another broker over Ross's shoulder. Broker Ross asked for another quotation. Another broker snapped up that offering. Broker Ross found...
...Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation into a Division, staffed with expert criminologists and lawyers to cooperate with the states in tracking down kidnappers and racketeers. 2) The organization of a mobile detachment under Special Assistant Keenan to concentrate on kidnapping cases. 3) Legislation to stop the sale of firearms to gangsters and criminals. 4) Legislation asking the states to surrender their authority in cases of kidnapping, thus leaving Federal agents free to ignore state lines. 5) The absorption of the Prohibition Bureau by the new Division of Investigation. To direct the new division he selected 39-year...