Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each customer a registered motbok (passbook). Whenever and whatever he or she buys is recorded. A catalog of 800 wines and 250 liquors lists prime Scotch whiskey at $2.50, sound French champagne at $2.75 and fiery Swedish brandy...
Agent Lon H. Tyson told how, accompanied by his wife, he had made the acquaintance of one Louis Zalud, headwaiter at "Helen Morgan's Summer Home," who served them a pint of rye whiskey, some ginger ale, a quart of champagne and a cover charge, all for $55.75. The rye was served in ginger ale bottles. Headwaiter Zalud stirred the champagne in the glasses with a wooden stick and said: "This is to get the gas out of your champagne...
...Means crockery was only minor graft in the Department of Justice where he was lodged under Daugherty. He was convicted of taking a bribe from two culprits in a mail fraud case which the Department discovered. He was convicted of conspiring to obtain and sell Federal permits for whiskey withdrawals. He was charged with forgery of a Senator's name, but that was dropped. He served 38 months at Atlanta Penitentiary, including extra months to work off $20,000 in fines. Then he took a pauper's oath and departed, a free man, to see his 79-year...
Baron Dewar, famed British whiskey distiller, has a new quip: "I am told that the infallible American method of testing bootleg whiskey is to drop a sledge hammer into it. If it sinks, the stuff is poor, if it floats, good, and if it dissolves, perfect...
...border. Such is the reputation of Circus Man John Ringling for discipline and probity-he entertained President Coolidge in Washington only lately (TIME, May 14)-that none of the Ringling officials was even suspected of connivance. At Malone, the Federal men confiscated some 4,000 bottles of prime Canadian whiskey, gin, wines, beer. Acrobats had it hidden in their kimonos. A Spanish couple hid it beneath their infants in an upper berth. The trains were run on a siding for the search and as word spread of what was happening, bottles showered out of the car windows. Possession cost...