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...Word. In Fort Worth, Mrs. M. E. Johnson complained to the city council that her tavern business was suffering from a plague of divinity students who clustered so thickly outside her door preaching sidewalk sermons that prospective customers had to elbow their...
Battlers in the cause of prohibition read Tap & Tavern, a trade journal of the liquor industry, with the same horrified avidity that anti-Communist crusaders bring to the Daily Worker. Last October Tap & Tavern announced with pride that Robert L. King, vice president and general manager of the Southern Comfort Corp.* in St. Louis, was going to Washington to be the top administrative assistant to Vice President Nixon. In his new job, Nixon announced, King would handle "considerable legislative matters...
...Twixt the Cup & the Lip. In Gütersloh, Germany, police arrested Friedelina Kleine-Beek after she followed her husband to a local tavern, watched through the window as he raised a glass of beer to his lips, then carefully aimed a rifle and fired, shattering the glass, but leaving her husband unscathed...
Church building is booming, and membership is soaring. But, warned the report: "Our crime rate appears to rise alongside our membership increase . . . We can all remember when the major challenge to the tavern came from the Protestant churches. Today the challenge is from television...
...prevention bureau is merely following its usual policy on liquor law violations and that "neither the coming elections or the WCTU can have any effect on how we enforce the local liquor laws." The officer, who refused to be identified, said that the department has men checking package and tavern sales at least two nights weekly...