Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, April 12, under PROHIBITION, you speak disparagingly of breweries like Pabst and Anheuser-Busch, which leads the reader to believe that they were unscrupulous in their dealings through the saloons and other agencies. Knowing the Pabst family very well, I take exception to this as they are far from anything such as you lead your readers to believe. They are very well-bred, of good culture, fine breeding, and the influence that they exerted through saloons was absolutely negligible. It might have been the saloon keeper himself but not the brewers who supplied the beverages...
Irving Berlin once worked as a waiter in Nigger Mike's, an East Manhattan saloon. His talent was schooled by the clink and shuffle of a nickelodeon. Critics have often pointed meaningly to this fact saying that a man who could emerge from such a background with an equipment as fine as Mr. Berlin's?lacking perhaps the sophistication of George Gershwin, the light-foot fantasy of Jerome Kern, but authentic and interesting nevertheless?must be indeed a genius. So the phrase"Words and Music by Irving Berlin" has come to mean certain things to the U. S. public...
...great scene of the hearing did not take place, however. Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, did not take the stand, and Senator James A. Reed, the one Wet inquisitor, did not have a chance to ask him the embarrassing question which the Wets had anticipated...
Before General Lincoln C. Andrews was called before the Committee (TIME, April 19) he was warned to guard his statements, for anti-saloon officials were waiting for his official scalp. Why, no one knew. He is certainly no friend of the Wets...
...prohibition of the raising of grain, fruit. Simultaneously wise Mark Sullivan (political critic) suggested that the eastern wets were all wrong in advocating "beer and wine" because in the West beer is dreaded as much as anything. The reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through the saloon an influence on public affairs. As owners of saloons, the beer men were the chief dispensers of hotter drink. Thus that part of the dry population which remembers saloon days, does...