Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors to her, closed it again, listened for two hours while she used all her legal and oratorical talents explaining...
Long have U. S. citizens been peddled kegs of California and New York grape juice, destined to become wine in the citizens' homes. These were semi-bootleg sales, unnoticed by the Prohibition Bureau. There was no advertising, only a door-to-door canvass. But last week in Milwaukee there appeared large billboard and full-page newspaper advertisements for a grape concentrate called "Vine-Glo." Beside thin-stemmed glasses of ruby and amber liquids were the words: "You can't buy it from peddlers. Not on sale at any store. Never served in any restaurant-BUT YOU CAN HAVE...
...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. To market this vast...
...London Sketch, in a page of other animal pictures, published the photograph of a simian eating a grape, with the following captions: "Catching the grape fallen from the forehead: a chimpanzee does his teatime trick'...Need it be added that the 'chimp' is our old friend...
Wines including unfermented grape wine...