Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has the least effect on those consuming liquor in restaurants and other public dispensaries. There is, in practice, only a very slight pretence at enforcement of this clause elsewhere than in places so rigidly controlled as the House Dining Halls. In any Boston restaurant or tavern, a boy of sixteen who is gifted with a mature face and bearing, may purchase enough liquor to interfere materially with the proper functioning of his limbs. An ordinary boy of eighteen can get his shot of the McCoy anywhere. In Harvard Dining Halls, unfortunately, the man who an hour before was drinking...
...that such a special license may be issued only if Cambridge votes to permit all forms of liquor or if it votes to issue licenses for the sale of malt beverages and wines. It is probable that Cambridge will go overwhelmingly wet, even to the extent of allowing the tavern, since only a few of the voters living here for a long time, can remember the old saloons which were banned in this town in 1887. The result will be known on December 19 when Cambridge will hold a referendum on the subject...
That liquor is harmful to persons under twenty-one, but that the tavern, if approved, need not be kept away from the vicinity of Harvard or any other University, seems to be the consensus of opinion among the members of the Senate and House of Massachusetts. When interviewed yesterday State Senator Harry B. Putnam, who is active in liquor control work, said. "There is no harm in selling liquor to men over twenty-one, and since the liquor bill contains a provision prohibiting sale of liquor to anyone under this age, I see no reason why the tavern should...
...main trouble I see," said Representative Paul A. Dever of Cambridge, "is with girls. No one can tell how old they are nowadays. The tavern will not be harmful," continued Mr. Dever, "it will be an aid to temperance, and will keep the students away from the bad influence of speakeasies...
...tavern is a real menace to the nation as a whole, believes Mrs. Robert W. Lovett, vice-chairman of the Women's Organization for National Pro- hibition Reform and chairman of the Massachusetts Branch. Mrs. Lovett feels that the men who voted for the tavern have broken their pledge to stop the return of the saloon. "After proof of the power of an organized minority typified by the passing of the eighteenth amendment, it is incredible to me that the citizens of this state should be willing to accept dictation by another small group, that is to say by those...