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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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Cement Heads for the Cement Show
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Suppertime and the living is easy
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Four years into Prohibition.
Briggs was Cheech and Chong 14 years before Tommy Chong was born.Report
Looked it up.
Socony (Socony-Vaccum Oil Company) was a precursor to the Mobil Oil company (which would much later merge into ExxonMobil)
Socony Vacuum is derived from Standard Oil Company of New York and that it’s filling stations had vacuum cleaners.Report
They were also part of a legendary antitrust case in their own right in the 1940s that made price fixing illegal per se.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Socony-Vacuum_Oil_Co.Report
And also the offshoot of the first real successful anti-trust action when Scotus ruled in 1911 that Standard Oil needed to be broken up under the Sherman anti-trust act.
https://sites.gsu.edu/us-constipedia/standard-oil-co-of-new-jersey-v-united-states-1911/#:~:text=The%20court%20ruled%20in%20favor,one%20another%2C%20effectively%20lowering%20prices.Report
This slang and calling it San Frisco is new to me.Report
I’m wondering if there was some sort of unofficial censorship during Prohibition. You could implicate people were breaking the law but you couldn’t depict it at all.Report
“I’ve got the stuff!”
“DAVE’S NOT HERE!”Report