Word: bourbon
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...presented last week as "the man who has actually made more whiskey than any living person." At 1 he was put in one of his father's distilleries as manager. Few years later he was put out when his father sold the distillery. Thereafter Son Harry manufactured Bourbon for various companies, alcohol for the Government during the War, medicinal whiskey for Schenley during Prohibition. Stocky, round-faced, white-haired, he bustles around his plant with his hat pushed back on his head, continually begging the pardon of girl packers with whom he collides. The company baseball team knows that...
...tapped for order occasionally with an ivory paper cutter, but there were few occasions to ring the huge brass bell reserved for bigger ructions. A nervous crowd, kept in hand by a line of police, moiled about the Place de la Concorde and over the bridge to the Palais Bourbon, shouting "Save the franc!" Inside, important speeches were going on but few paid attention. Over the backs of benches, from ear to ear a whisper rustled like the echo of a thousand leaves: When was Flandin coming? When would he speak...
...crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small but significant sample of France's current temper. Across the river in the Palais Bourbon porters were filling all the inkwells and placing a large brass dinner bell on the Speaker's desk, for the most powerful, least responsible legislative body in the world, the Chamber of Deputies, was about to meet. Every Frenchman knew what they were faced with: an immediate budget deficit...
Even for a body so admittedly Bourbon as the Association of Manufacturers such an attitude is surprising. Through the dreariest days of the past winter, with the castles of Rooseveltism crashing down about our ears, the voices against the social reform side of the President's program have been distinctly gentle. Although the Roosevelt honeymoon may be coming to an end, the President's program for social security has met with cheering sympathy on all sides...
Engaged. Prince Juan, 21. third and only unmarried son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily...