Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover's autographed photograph was on its way last week through the Red Sea to Abyssinia as his coronation present to Ras Tafari, "King of Kings." Germany's President von Hindenburg also sent a signed picture of himself, together with 500 bottles of fine Rhine wine...
...beverages are consumed only in very small amounts. But whiskey, gin or rum, having approximately the same alcoholic content, are frequently taken at a rate which results in the absorption into the blood within an hour of enough centimetres of alcohol to intoxicate." Although Pedagog Yandell did not mention wine in his list of good cheer, yet Yale was also wine-conscious last week...
Director Woodcock, however, intended no such thing. The Wet press had misinterpreted him. He had spoken of wine-making in the home, not of the sale of grapes or grapejuice for winemaking. When fortnight ago his Bureau of Prohibition Compilation obtained figures showing that all U. S. wine grapes produced last year were made into wine, that U. S. annual wine consumption has risen to 118,329,300 gal. from 52,418,430 gal. in 1914, he spoke again. He explained that any big sale of grapes for wine-making would encounter trouble from his Bureau. He said...
...this later statement disturbed hope-ful grapegrowers, they were more disturbed last week when Director Wood-cock's agents obtained indictments against nine officials of California Vineyards Co., for sending "cards and advertising matter through the mails to hundreds of thousands of prospective customers guaranteeing 'fine old wine' would be provided in accordance with the Prohibition law." Observers anticipated a legal fight between a Government-subsidized industry and the Government, predicted a sweeping Wet victory on the wine question if the California jury, like the one at Baltimore, finds the "fine old wine" non-intoxicating in fact...
...became choked with rumors and reports as to what its conclusions would be. Most Washington correspondents agreed that the Commission, though disappointed in Prohibition, would not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment but would possibly recommend to President Hoover some modification of the Volstead Act to legalize beer and wine...