Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SALE?Saloon with property; old people want to retire; doing a $40,000-a-year business; never any liquor difficulties; catering to a select trade; a live wire can clear at least $20,000 yearly. This is one of the outstanding opportunities of a lifetime. BERGEN BUSINESS BROKERS, 221 River St., Hackensack...
...Louis Cannel of Bergen Business Brokers blandly told the saloon's address ?No. 491 Broad St., Carlstadt, N. J. (German community)?and blandly explained: "That place is an exclusive section. . . . Provided the new owners dispense the same high quality of liquor as handled by the present proprietors there is no reason why that should not make $40,000 a year, taking $10,000 in Christmas week alone." He said the difference in the advertisement between business done and what a "live wire" might clear was not protection money. Said he: "You don't have to pay when...
Chairman Fess was once a Wet himself. He went Dry politically only when Ohio did. When President Hoover picked him, a staid Anti-Saloon Leaguer, to head the national committee, many an observer concluded that the President was preparing to seek re-election in 1932 as a thoroughgoing Dry, was already consolidating the Dry forces in command of the national machine. It was even suspected that this move was designed to block the rising power and prestige of that potent Wet presidential possibility, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Republican Senatorial nominee in New Jersey. The Grand Old Party might, it seemed, become...
...while he and McGraw ran a saloon together in Baltimore. When McGraw went to New York, Robbie followed him and helped coach the Giants. Hired by Charles Ebbets to manage Brooklyn he took with him none of the methods of domineering, arrogant Strategist McGraw, or any other manager...
Died. Patrick A. ("Paddy") Roche, oldtime fight promoter, proprietor of the famed Red Carpet Saloon (first Manhattan cafe to have a carpet), referee of the bout in 1889 when John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain after 75 bare-knuckle rounds at Richburg, Miss.; of heart disease; at the Hotel Breslin, Manhattan...