Word: whiskeys
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BART: Look, Grant saved the Union didn't he, and they named a whiskey after him. But, my prime concern is our hard-drinking, draft-dodging college youth. I want to assure them that they are doing their part sipping Bourbon while the soldiers do the fighting. After all, each drink pays for another bullet. And we'll underscore their contribution by urging them to drink by the jigger and "Have a shot...
...protection fee is more/if the liquor sold is moonshine. Produced in backyard stills to avoid the state's exorbitant whiskey tax, moonshine is occasionally poisoned by the lead piping often used in the stills, but it is cheap. It is the favorite drink of the unemployed or of those, like construction workers, whose employment depends on the vagaries of business cycles and white foremen. For retailers of moonshine, the customer turnover is great, the clientele uproarious, the profit margin low, and the danger ever-present that state agents will move in on whatever still happens at the moment...
...additional sum, those cops who accept pay-offs (and again, reliable estimates are not to be found) are willing to overlook a number of other offenses which may be carried on at whiskey houses -- gambling, prostitution, sale of stolen items. The general rule of thumb: add $5 per man for each additional vice...
...Negro alley is just an entirely different world," muses Charles Denaburg, a white lawyer who sits occasionally as judge in Recorder's Court (police court). He doubts that more than a few policemen take bribes, and he also believes that a police crack-down on whiskey houses would have little effect. "If you made it a capital offense," he says, "they're going to drink and gamble...
...lesser offenses, Denaburg says, "They have a hell of a lot of whiskey houses operating in niggertown. It doesn't really hurt society for Negroes to sit in a house and drink whiskey and have skin games. They're not bothering anyone else besides themselves...