Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vivid Kentuckiana: blue grass. Bourbon whiskey, the Derby. Mammoth Cave. -ED. Drunk Definitions...
Kentucky is the State once proud of its whiskey, women and steeds. Of his native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...
Second with 42 votes, ten less than Mr. Young, came Automan Henry Ford. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, onetime coal, iron, aluminum, whiskey tycoon, was third with...
...under arrest," called Agent Stevens. Leveling his rifle at the farmer, Stevens started to rush him, tripped over a sand rut, pulled the trigger, shot the farmer through the heart, dead. Stevens had no search warrant. His raid netted a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of whiskey. He was held for murder...
Receiving the reports, Commissioner Doran announced: "The Bureau of Prohibition will proceed to act upon applications ... for permits to manufacture whiskey for medicinal use. . . . The amount of actual whiskey on hand July 1, 1929 is 9,549,017 gallons. If further manufacture is now permitted, it will be late fall or nearly Jan. 1, 1930 before actual production commences. . . . Extensive examinations have been made of the bonded whiskey stocks and I can state that they are in sound condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal...