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...industry, I am not so sure that you are entirely correct in saying "When Prohibition was finally repealed . . . Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks ..."... As I recall it, the first case of beer went to Al Smith when it came off the line, and I am wondering if you do not feel that this would have been a good spot in the article to have mentioned the "Happy Warrior" in this connection...
...exactly sailing Harriman's hat into the ring, it was at least nudging it considerably past the taw line. Carmine De Sapio will lead-and control-the New York delegation to the 1956 national convention, and he is not a man to waste his time on token political gestures. New York's political sons (by reason of the state's 90-odd delegate votes and financial resources) have a habit of becoming serious contenders in presidential nominating politics...
...Louis. People were backed all the way out to the curb waiting for their turn at the bar." Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that fed me"), thus giving some latter-day verisimilitude to Horace Greeley's remark, circa 1860: "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said...
...award of $112,291 is "a mere token," reflected Judge Fred A. Young in Manhattan last week, "for all the wealth of the State of New York could not compensate the claimant for the mental anguish suffered through nearly twelve years of false imprisonment, under the impression that he would be there for the rest of his life...
When Cleveland Press staffers took a courtroom picture of a deposed local judge on trial for embezzlement, the judge hearing the case objected. But the Press went ahead anyway, was held in contempt of court (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) and fined $700 plus a token jail term for the city editor-one hour in the sheriff's custody. The Press's Editor Louis Seltzer announced that he would appeal the verdict to the highest courts...