Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill case in Baltimore a jury decided wine was not intoxicating even though it contained 12% alcohol. . . . Winemaking will receive little consideration from the enforcement unit. . . . The job of the Prohibition Bureau ... is to enforce the law against the big, commercial violators. . . . Wine may be made in the home for use in the home." Thus last month spoke Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock. He added that such wine might legally be transported...
...press gloated. The tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes...
...TIME, May 14, 1928), member of eight other historical societies; and Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.; at Bridgeport, Conn. Allegations: two years ago Mr. Brosseau became uncongenial; last May he slapped Mrs. Brosseau's face in her boudoir when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. There are no children...
John Pierpont Morgan presented to the Watford Peace 'Memorial Hospital (near Wall Hall, the Morgan residence at Watford, England) 130 bottles of champagne. Hospital officials were flustered; they prescribe champagne only for seasickness, and Watford is 70 mi. inland. They wrote twice to a local wine merchant, once asking him to buy the champagne outright, once to have it credited against the hospital's brandy account. The champagne remained in the hospital's cellar...
...anti-Prohibition fighting line stood those who favored outright repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of prohibitory powers, if any, to the States. Wet opinion shaded down through vague forms of modification and foxy redeterm-nations of "non-intoxicating" formulae to the timid "beer-&-light-wine" pleas at the other end of the line. Result: the Wet ranks moved forward obliquely, with one flank far in advance of the other...