Word: mack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gang War. Whatever may be Willard Mack's inadequacies as a playwright, there are seldom, in his opera, those fearful stretches, common in the works of the worst dramatists, in which nothing is happening and nothing seems likely to. His plays are always full of motion and noise which carry with them a crude but undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king...
...July 1926, he was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act, was sentenced to two years in Atlanta penitentiary. U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian William Mack regretted that the sentence could not be made longer...
Committeeman Norman E. Mack of New York stirred things up by declaring that Governor Smith stood for State-determinism, against prohibition, for temperance. Governor Smith curtly confirmed this "news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
...reporter from the militantly wet New York World called on Governor Smith and popped the following question: "In view of the question raised at Houston about Norman E. Mack's statement [see p. 9], the World wishes to know: Have you changed your belief that there should be amendment of the present Prohibition provisions...
...America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...