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Died. F. (for Francis) Scott McBride, 82, a leader of the Anti-Saloon League of America for 44 years; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A Presbyterian minister, McBride became a professional temperance crusader in 1911. He lamented in 1934 that the end of prohibition was resulting in "riots and bloodshed." In 1935 he proclaimed that "repeal has failed" and predicted national prohibition would be back...
...weapons, and his name has dropped out of the Social Register. As for Pat, she was dropped out of café society and dropped in on the leather-jacket set. While the jury was pondering Mickey's fate, Pat had a couple of Scotches at a Tenth Avenue saloon and went motorcycling with an old friend...
They changed the beer in Yezzi's place last week. Over the bar of the State Street saloon, where Albany politicians hang out, now flows Genesee beer, made by Louis Wehle, New York's newly appointed conservation commissioner. Yezzi's was turning with the political wind: after twelve years of Republican rule, Averell Hardman, millionaire Democrat, was inaugurated as governor of New York, the nation's second biggest political...
When it appears that Doris and Gig will make happy music together, bird-like Frank Sinatra shows up wearing a chip on his shoulder. Frankie, a saloon pianist and musical arranger, is on his uppers. "They," he says, looking up at the ceiling from where the Fates guide his misery, have never given him a break...
Vintage. In Sparta, Wis., Tavernkeeper Carl J. Waters was fined $250 on a charge that when children came around to his saloon on Halloween chanting "Trick or treat," he gave them shots of whisky...