Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (180-10-53) a bill to permit the sale of 3.2% beer in the District of Columbia after defeating (121-10-72) an amendment to bar it from the Capitol and other Federal buildings; sent it to the Senate...
...four minutes to two by the Cabinet room clock as President Roosevelt sat down at the head of the long mahogany table, flicked a red ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added...
...beer is non-intoxicating, can it be sold at Army posts in Dry states, aboard Naval vessels in Dry harbors? Last week Army Corps orders were issued for its sale at Fort Leavenworth...
...system of local option has been in effect in Massachusetts, under which each municipality determines for itself whether there shall be "license" or "no license." Under the existing law, the citizens of the communities of the state are required to vote affirmatively every year in order to authorize the sale of non-intoxicating alcoholic beverages. The last vote on this subject in Cambridge was taken about ten years...
...addition to the uncertainty surrounding the question of allowing the sale of beer, the method of licensing and selection of places for sale remain to be cleared up by municipal ordinance...