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...anti-Beer argument believed in by President Hoover is that more men would be thrown out of work in the soft drink industry than would gain employment in the reopened breweries. Last week, answering an inquiry from Editor John Sanford Cohen of the Atlanta Journal, President Robert Winship Woodruff of Coca-Cola Co., leading trademarked U. S. soft drink in point of volume, made an announcement...
Cordial shops sell nonalcoholic vermouth and cordials. They also sell the "imported" kind. Or they will sell you nonalcoholic vermouth and a pint of alcohol and tell you how to mix them. Some of them take orders for "Canadian" beer, to be delivered by the case. Whiskeys are frankly of local manufacture. Said a cordial shop clerk last week: "You can't get any better whiskey than this [King George] whiskey. The man that made this whiskey has been making whiskey ever since Prohibition...
...Penn $2.50 (pt.), Silver Dollar $3 (pt.), Overholt $4 (pt.), Butterham & Worth $4.50 (pt.). Scotch -Ambassador $2.50 (pt.), King George $2.50 (pt.), Johnnie Walker $4.75 (qt.), King George $4.75 (qt.). Port-$2.25 per quart. Sherry-$2.25 per quart. Grain Alcohol-$9 per gallon. Imported Cordi-als-$4.50 per bottle. Beer-$9 per case of 24 pints...
...legend that he never smiles, is an excellent marksman with his pistol. A student of criminology, he is brainier than most policemen. No less honest, if not so brainy, is his chief aide. Captain Shoemaker. Students of Chicago crime predicted that Commissioner Allman would not attempt to eliminate beer saloons, cigar store bookmakers, or other small grafters, but would concentrate on organized crime, make the city safe for the 1933 World's Fair. Commissioner Allman would make no predictions...
...jobless dole-drawers through the streets of Glasgow last week. Police inspectors were waiting for him, told him that he could not march. The crowd of sullen workmen in grimy caps grew & grew. There were angry murmurs. Suddenly riot flared. Mobsters smashed store windows and began looting. Brickbats, cobblestones, beer bottles whanged through the air. Mounted police clattered down the High Street swinging their truncheons. John McGovern was dragged off to jail, charged with "threatening violence to the lieges and committing a breach of the peace...