Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lingering hope of a light-wine-and-beer modification of the law which inspired George Ehret to keep his brewery open nearly Ten Years After. The same hope inspired his sons after his death in 1927. Near-beer, as such, would not have interested old George Ehret. From 1866 to 1920 he made real beer-drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock to get pure water for his product-sold more than 1,200,000 barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition...
Retorted Senator Gould, unabashed: "Everybody who knows me knows that I have always favored light wines and beer. The people in my section make wine from elderberry flowers and grapes. God Almighty put those flowers and vines on earth and He intended them to be used...
...Mergered last week were seven large California grape products (unfermented wine) companies into a $30,000,000 Fruit Industries, Inc. A potent Eastern competitor: Taylor Wine...
...constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a legal squabble between two grape juice companies in Federal Court in St. Louis.* A distributing company was suing a producing company on the ground that its product was inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially...
...legality of the sale of unfermented grape juice was admitted by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. But he was much less sure that Senator Gould had not violated the Volstead Act by making it into wine under the company's instructions, though it is not the Prohibition Unit's policy to raid winemakers' homes where no sale has occurred. Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League repudiated the Maine Senator as a Dry, characterized him as a "Wet-Wet," predicted his defeat this fall...