Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plot: A Pocatello, Idaho madame, wronged in youth, sits in the centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies...
Brewer Frank Schwab, onetime Mayor of Buffalo, was dismayed at his colleagues' zeal to flood the market. Said he: "Beer won't last five years if the saloon is allowed to come back...
...Town, 5¢." Taxes, Federal, state, local, will probably run its price above 20c per glass. But will beer-by-the-glass return? Few brewers were sure. The distribution problem still offers the greatest conflict of public and private opinion. As deep-rooted as ever is dread of the saloon. Crusader Fred Clark holds firmly to his organization's purpose of "taking profit out of liquor distribution." Such an able Wet as Representative-elect Wadsworth of New York fears that Repeal, the ultimate goal, might be retarded by a reckless flood of beer...
...back upon the states, few of which are ready to deal with it. When in 1920 New York passed an enforcement act, it repealed its excise laws for liquor regulation. When in 1923 it repealed the same act, its statutes were left bare of authority to cope with the saloon. In many a state last week governors announced they would not tinker their local laws?or lack of them?until the 18th Amendment was repealed...
...even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures of Richard Dix. Typical shot: Guy Kibbee, drunk and oratorical, inducing the patrons of a saloon to deposit their money instead of squandering it for liquor...