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...annual liquor business, with its $30,000,000 paid for protection, would have enough profits for all the hoodlums. But each gang has its eye on a monopoly. They encroach upon one another's territory, raid one another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis) ; one on the far west side with headquarters in Cicero...
...Under the present Ontario law (that the new bill may replace) the sale of 4.4% beer and whiskey on a doctor's prescription is permitted. Many bootleggers flourish. The new bill makes sure that liquor will only be sold through government stores by a provision for compulsory jail sentence without option of a fine for the unauthorized sale of as much as one bottle of liquor...
...College authorities also evidently kept an eye on charge accounts, as evidenced by the decree that "no Undergraduate shall go or send to any Inn holder or Retailor within three miles of ye College for any strong Beer, Brandy, Rum. Wine or other spirituous Liquors, without paying immediately for ye same...
...Richmond-on-the-Thames, England, to train for the annual varsity boat race. Upon reaching the hotel which was to be their headquarters, the president of the crew said to the proprietor: "Has it arrived?" The proprietor replied that it had. "It" was a shipment of special Cambridge beer, the approved training table beverage for the university (see "Oxford...
...time!" "Prepared to commit murder-?" taunted the petite, personable Zina. "You couldn't kill me, could you Sergei?" "Yes, I swear it! If anyone here will sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote. "Draw that long Finnish knife you have, Sergei!" she laughed. "Here is your paper." Trembling, Student Slovochotov drew...