Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another prohibition announcement of last week came from Pierre Samuel Du Pont, retired board chairman of Mr. Ford's competitor, General Motors Corp. Mr. du Pont denied that Prosperity was due to prohibition, claimed the automobile, the radio, had replaced the saloon for recreation. Said he: "The iniquities of the saloon itself have been largely overdrawn. . . . The workingman gets all the spirituous liquor he wants at probably not a greatly increased price...
Entrance of Mr. Ungerleider into the brokerage field in 1919 was prompted by some unfortunate experiences as an outside investor. During his early business career, Mr. Ungerleider had been a distiller, getting into the liquor business. When still a very young man, he went to work for a saloon keeper and in two years owned the saloon. Selling out his distillery business with the approach of prohibition (1919), Mr. Ungerleider tried to retire, found the burden of leisure too heavy to endure. He began to play the market and quickly discovered the expenses of that pastime. He soon decided that...
...been and remains one of its vitally important functions. True, last week's formation of General Industrial Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League or to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Indeed, the U. S. public in general probably took scant interest in the facts that the new company will manufacture annually some 5,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol, that it will be eighth largest U. S. industrial alcohol concern. Yet industrial...
...mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column: Two men dressed in plus fours were seen by a policeman early yesterday morning throwing coathangers over the railings of Battersea Park. When they saw the policeman they jumped into a red saloon motorcar and drove off towards Chelsea. The officer found more than 100 coathangers in the park...
...quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond was set at $2,000. But for three days Congressman Michaelson played a hide-and-seek game with U. S. Marshals. He spent a lonely Easter and the next day gave himself...