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Word: saloon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulkley ran for the Senate as an out-and-out wet in the state of Ohio, home of the Anti-Saloon League, winning from the dry candidate, Roscoe, in a contest to fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator Burton. He will be up for reelection this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULKLEY WILL ADDRESS DEMOCRATIC CLUB TODAY | 3/18/1932 | See Source »

...list of charges against Sheriff Farley, demanded his ousting. Included was the $360,660 deposited by the sheriff in six years, which he feebly explained as coming out of a fabulous "tin box." His motley assortment of incompetent subordinates were also enumerated, including "BigHearted" Joe Flaherty, who gave a saloon to his brother because he was "sick and hard up," and his secretary, one McNulty, who denned his duties as "nothing in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Bothers of a Boss | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Zelli is the name of a man who went to France after serving in the Italian Army, stayed in Paris to run a night club and became a byword for junketing college boys. Last autumn he closed up shop on depression-stricken Montmartre, came to Manhattan to run a saloon for Racketeer Owney Madden. Mr. Papavert is the translated version of a play which Mr. Zelli presented in Paris. It was originally of Teutonic extraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Cleveland department stores last week offered the "Ballyhoo" scarf (with "Ballyhoo" clip), made with a crazy quilt design like the magazine's cover border. Also there are a Ballyhoo dress, necktie, cuff links, rings, night club (in Manhattan), song, game, birthday card, convalescent card, saloon (in Havana, formerly the American Bar), a statuet of Gandhi with a copy of Ballyhoo under his arm. Except for the game, all the other enterprises are independent of the publication which takes its royalties in the form of free advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dirt Swept | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...storm which lashed the banking structure of New England blew itself out in Hartford fortnight ago when three institutions suspended, including the $20,000,000, 80-year-old City Bank & Trust Co. Other failures of the fortnight included Bank of Westerville, Ohio (with Anti-Saloon League funds); First National Bank of Gary, Ind. (leaving but one bank there, secure with U. S. Steel Corp. backing). In South Carolina there was a wave of failures following the crash of Peoples State Bank with $24,443,000 in deposits, 43 branches. Banks in such communities as Bishopville, Travelers Rest, Florence, failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Open & Shut | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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