Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history the Boston Tea Party (1773) has been joined by the Boston Police Strike (1919). Inasmuch as the latter event created the fame which made Calvin Coolidge Vice President, and hence President, there are not a few critics who want to dig up and rewrite the legend. The story as reconstructed by these critics brings zero credit to Mr. Coolidge. They charge...
...Thomas Lipton, tea magnate: "I announced that I had definitely decided to build a new boat and challenge again for America's Cup in 1925. Headlining this report, the New York Tribune ignorantly referred to me as 'Sir Lipton...
Merrill, Lynch & Co. have been foremost in financing seven large chain store systems?S. S. Kresge & Co., the McCrory Stores Company, the Acme Tea Company, Jones Brothers Tea Company, J. C. Penney Company, G. R. Kinney & Company, the Melville Shoe Company. These companies operate about 2,000 stores, whose total sales in 1922 exceeded...
...state that has voted dry by substantial majorities several times since 1916. Previous to that it was rapidly becoming dry by local option. Senator Couzens virtually threw his gauntlet in the face of this sentiment by declaring that 5% beer was neither worse nor more intoxicating than tea or coffee...
...treated for several weeks); that the menu on the day the two women were at Ellis Island consisted of: prunes, oatmeal with milk, bread, butter and coffee (for breakfast); bean soup, potted beef with vegetables and rice pudding (for dinner); macaroni with tomato sauce, blackberry jelly with tea, coffee or milk (for supper); in addition graham crackers and milk three times a day; that the amount of food served was unlimited...