Word: wulff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Wulff, himself a judicious oldster of 62, blamed such victorian decadents as the late Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde and Charles Pierre Baudelaire for leading Paris on to rash absinthe
Absinthe capital of the world today is no city of Europe or Asia but New Orleans. Louisianans have been sipping absinthe almost as long as the French who brought it back from their expeditions into North Africa centuries ago. The big New Orleans absinthe firm is L. E. Jung & Wulff Co. In 1926 Mr. Jung died worth some $250.000 and was succeeded by Mr. Wulff as president. Swank Son Frederick August Wulff is treasurer, plays crack polo and is a captain in the 108th Cavalry of Louisiana's National Guard, but the firm's "Grand Old Absinthe Man" is James...
...such statements border on pure New Orleans absinthe romance, they are piquant evidence of the sturdy enterprise of Jung & Wulff who during the U. S. period of Prohibition sold 4,000 cases yearly of "non-alcoholic absinthe." In what New Orleans calls "the legal confusion which followed Repeal," Jung & Wulff sold 1,500 cases of absinthe until ordered to desist last...