Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Clan O'Connell directed negotiations for its scion's return. Obeying the kidnappers' instructions, the names of three sets of intermediaries, 31 in all, were published in code in Albany and New York newspapers. The intermediaries were cabaret operators, ex-beer truck drivers, saloon waiters, tipsters and other questionable characters-all friends of the democratic O'Connells. Neither the district attorney's office, local or state police, nor the dozen Department of Justice agents sent to Albany specially by Attorney General Cummings at the request of New York's Senator Copeland...
...caused one of the studio rows between Darryl Zanuck and Harry Warner as a result of which Zanuck quit Warners, formed a new company called Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. to release films through United Artists. A morose and timidly salacious study of the life and loves of a saloon keeper's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck), it shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having an affair with the vice president. The cashier shoots the vice president and himself, leaving Lily Powers...
Treasurer of the Dickson City school board is Michael Wolohowicz, nearly 70, who emigrated from Lithuania 40 years ago, worked in the mines, ran a saloon, became prominent in local politics. He raised six children, sent them through high school. He closed his saloon after Prohibition but, portly and walrus-mustached, Schoolman Wolohowicz still resembles an oldtime bartender. He has been on the Dickson City school board for most of the past 22 years, has been treasurer for twelve years, lately getting some $4,000 per year in commissions...
...decided in advance that anything less than a 2-to-1 victory for Repeal would be a moral victory for us there." He thereupon vanished in Alabama. "The Wets had the support of both the national and State administrations," observed L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, "and ample funds supplied by the breweries and distillers." Exulting in their tenth straight victory, Wet organizations looked with optimism on the outcome of six more ratification votes this month: in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, California, West Virginia. Anti-Repealists began concentrating their campaign in the arid South. They...
...sold his drygoods store to Levi Leiter and Marshall Field because he thought his days were numbered, lived to see a new Palmer House become Chicago's first world-famed hotel. Its barber shop (floor studded with silver dollars) set the fashion for every first-class saloon west of the Mississippi. Gourmets of the 1880's smacked their chops over the Palmer House's saddles of venison and buffalo steaks...