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	Whiskey - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Whiskey, liquor distilled from the fermented mash of cereal grains and containing about 40 to 50 percent ethyl alcohol by volume.
		Whiskey Rebellion, series of disturbances in 1794 aimed against the enforcement of a U.S. federal law of 1791 imposing an excise tax on whiskey.
		Whiskey Ring, in U.S. history, secret association of distillers and federal officials that operated during the administration of President Ulysses...
	encarta.msn.com /Whiskey.html (146 words)

	Whiskey Ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.
		The Whiskey Ring was seen by many as a sign of corruption under the Republican governments that took power across the nation following the American Civil War.
		The Whiskey Ring scandal, along with other alleged abuses of power by the Republican party, contributed to national weariness of Reconstruction, which ended after Grant's presidency with the Compromise of 1877.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whiskey_Ring (313 words)

	Whiskey Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The whiskey ring was a corrupt, immoral scandal.
		The ring was essentially a greed ring; it drew everyone that uncovered it into a ring of greed.
		The whiskey ring proves that greed affects everyone and that the age of scandals isn’t over yet.
	pages.prodigy.net /ohio1972/n1epg4.htm (212 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Whiskey
		The settlers, mainly Scotch-Irish, for whom whiskey was an important economic commodity, resented the tax as discriminatory and detrimental to their liberty and economic welfare.
		The ring operated mainly in St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Chicago and kept liquor taxes after bribing Internal Revenue officials in Washington, D.C. A secret investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department resulted in 238...
		The progressive agent of mischief: the whiskey ration and temperance in the United States Army.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Whiskey&StartAt=1 (748 words)

	Whiskey Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of...
		The Whiskey Ring was a corrupt conspiracy between Department of Treasury revenue officials and...
		Whiskey Ring, in U.S. history, a group of distillers and public officials who defrauded the federal government of...
	uspresident.foalpresident.com /whiskeyring (776 words)

	Whiskey Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal involving a group of politicians and whiskey distillers in Chicago, St.
		U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow broke the tightly-connected and politically powerful ring in 1875 using secret agents from outside the Treasury department.
		This, along with other alleged abuses power by the Republican party, contributed to national weariness of Reconstruction, which ended after Grant's presidency with the Compromise of 1877.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /w/wh/whiskey_ring.html (173 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		The ring survived its humble slush fund origins to become by 1873 a purely criminal enterprise, defrauding the federal treasury of an estimated million and a half dollars a year.
		Bristow made the destruction of the whiskey rings (rings for the scheme operated in a number of different cities) his personal and political crusade, but early efforts to unravel the corruption failed.
		The political battle simmering beneath the surface of the Whiskey Ring trials intensified with the conviction of W. Avery, the former chief clerk of the Treasury Department.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2000/fall/whiskey-ring-1.html (3728 words)

	HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day
		The St. Louis ring was headed by John McDonald, the Treasury Department’s supervisor of internal revenue for the St. Louis area and an old army buddy of President Grant.
		Bristow soon learned that a Whiskey Ring was defrauding the government out of millions of dollars in annual revenue, so he ordered an immediate and thorough investigation.
		In the summer of 1875, Grant was told that Babcock might be involved in the Whiskey Ring, and the disheartened president informed Bristow to "Let no guilty man escape." Babcock, however, was able to convince the president that he was an innocent victim of Bristow’s desire to gain notoriety and thereby the Republican presidential nomination.
	www.harpweek.com /09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon.asp?Month=March&Date=18 (538 words)

	Benjamin Bristow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As United States Secretary of the Treasury from June 4, 1874 to June 20, 1876, he initiated a much-needed internal reorganization of the Treasury Department, dismissing the Second-Comptroller for inefficiency, shaking up the detective force, and consolidating collection districts in the Customs and Internal Revenue Services.
		He prosecuted the so-called "Whiskey Ring," which was headquartered in St.
		Prominent among the ring's alleged accomplices at Washington D.C. was Orville E. Babcock, private secretary to President Grant, whose personal friendship for Babcock led him to indiscreet interference in the prosecution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_H._Bristow (513 words)

	AllRefer.com - Whiskey Ring (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		The Whiskey Ring was a public scandal, but it was considered impregnable because of its strong political connections.
		U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow resolved to break the conspiracy.
		Although President Grant's secretary, Orville E. Babcock, was acquitted through the personal intervention of the President, many persons believed that the Whiskey Ring was part of a plot to finance the Republican party by fraud.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WhiskRngR.html (294 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / BOURBON
		Whiskey and government are yoked together in an intimate relationship derived from the power of Congress to levy taxes and the fact that it takes a powerful lot of sour-mash bourbon to run the government in a big country like the United States.
		The distillation of corn whiskey, a colorless, unaged liquor that may be called bourbon’s country cousin, was simply a way of marketing the frontier grain crop, reducing its weight and bulk and enhancing its value.
		The Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790’s was a mass protest against the levy of a tax by the United States on the farm whiskey of Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1974/2/1974_2_60.shtml (2766 words)

	Whiskey Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whiskey was the performing horse who was stationedHe was famous for jumping through a ring of fire, leaping over a team of mulesArmy relied on horses.
		De Whiskey Ring was een samenspanning tussen een groep Amerikaanse politici en whiskeystokers ten tijde van de eerste regering-Grant.
		De Whiskey Ring werd door velen gezien als symptoom van corruptie in de Republikeinse regeringen die leiding gaven aan het land na de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog.
	www.encyclopedie.ws /Whiskey_Ring (540 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE AMERICAN SPIRIT
		Whiskey was not only a source of rare pleasure on the difficult frontier; it was also the main crop made concentrated and unspoilable, and as such a kind of liquid money.
		Thus, it is said, the whiskey’s long trip downstream revealed the virtues of aging, and the barrels’ return upriver led to the discovery of the benefits of charring.
		He still personally selects the whiskey, and it is unique among all bourbons in that it is bottled straight from the barrel without filtering or watering; other bourbons are filtered because unfiltered bourbon can turn cloudy when chilled, and they are cut with distilled water to get a desired proof level.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1998/3/1998_3_82.shtml (5692 words)

	Whiskey Ring. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Whiskey Ring was a public scandal, but it was considered impregnable because of its strong political connections.
		U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow resolved to break the conspiracy.
		Although President Grant’s secretary, Orville E. Babcock, was acquitted through the personal intervention of the President, many persons believed that the Whiskey Ring was part of a plot to finance the Republican party by fraud.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wh/WhiskRngR.html (236 words)

	whiskey ring
		The secrets of internal revenue: Exposing the whiskey ring, gold ring, and drawback frauds; divulging the systematic pillage of the public treasury and...
		Whiskey Dust Uncorks Some Western Oddities NEW YORK -- Mervin Bendewald, owner of Whiskey Dust, would be happy to weave the tale behind the specialty...
		Whiskey is a contemporary-fitting line of jeans made of soft, ring-spun Japanese or Italian denim...
	www.hallamericanhistory.com /top/sites/10/1/whiskey_ring.html (700 words)

	Memorial to Whiskey
		Whiskey walked over to exactly where I was reading, lifted his leg, and proceeded to pee on the article I was reading.
		Whiskey was the original watchdog at Eric's business Castle Navigation in the early 1980s.
		Whiskey's death was extremely hard on the whole family.
	www.shooterdog.com /whiskey.htm (374 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for ring
		In temperate regions this period is usually one year, in which case the growth ring may be called an annual ring.
		In tropical regions growth rings may not be discernible or are not annual.
		ring 1 / ri ng / • n.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=ring&StartAt=31 (801 words)

	Martini Republic » The St. Louis Blizzard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The role of whiskey in American history should not be underestimated; whiskey is as large in American life as jazz.
		Whiskey is a drink for all seasons, but it is friendliest in autumn and winter, when we need extra hope to go about our business.
		Tax was again the issue in President Grant’s greatest scandal, the Whiskey Ring, which originated in St. Louis and spread through the midwest.
	www.martinirepublic.com /item/the-st-louis-blizzard (725 words)

	The Market
		Bourbon, rye, and Tennessee whiskeys are American spirits, born on the land of a new continent.
		After the quickly squashed Whiskey Rebellion many of these farmer-distillers fled to Kentucky and set up business there, along with others of their kind who had followed pioneers like Daniel Boone into the "dark and bloody ground".
		This "Lincoln County Process" smooths the whiskey's character and produces a spirit which is separate from bourbon by both taste and government regulation.
	www.beveragebusiness.com /bbcontent/art-arch/bryson09.html (2878 words)

	Single malt subtleties hard to swallow
		It is his job as a whiskey master to break down those barriers, in tastings all across the South.
		Where most Irish whiskeys are distilled once, most scotches are distilled two or even three times and often aged longer, he said during the tasting.
		Ring handed out a few spoonfuls of each whiskey at a time as he explained the derivation and composition of the whiskeys.
	bangordailynews.com /news/templates/?a=146744&z=304 (638 words)

	Vancouver Restaurant - Fets Pasta Bar and Grill — British Columbia, Canada
		Rum and whiskey were not that uncommon of a drink for the pioneers.
		The number of stills in Tennessee were unknown at this time however it is known that roughly 801,000 gallons of whiskey was produced, which was approximately one third of the output of Kentucky and Virginia.
		As whiskey was sold in barrels its contents were continually questioned and in 1870 a The Old Forester company began selling its whiskey in sealed bottles.
	www.fetsbarandgrill.com /articles05.html (1027 words)

	Whiskey
		Pure pot still whiskey is made in Ireland from a combination of malted and unmalted barley.
		Various types of straight whiskey are produced in the U.S. which are aged in new, charred, oak barrels.
		Colombia also assesses a discriminatory VAT of 35 percent on whiskey aged for less than 12 years, which is more characteristic of U.S. whiskey, versus a rate of 20 percent for whiskey aged for 12 or more years, most of which comes from Europe.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/wh/whiskey.html (1447 words)

	Abraham Lincoln's Role in Bourbon History
		Part of the purchase price for their Kentucky farm was paid in whiskey, which Thomas probably resold for cash or traded for something that was a little easier to carry.
		Unfortunately for Lincoln the tavern keeper, and for the rest of the whiskey industry, this same period saw the birth and growth in America of a temperance movement that eventually led to national prohibition.
		One close associate of Lincoln's who did not agree with him about whiskey was General Ulysses S. Grant, who President Lincoln eventually placed in command of the Union army and who is generally credited with winning the war for the North.
	www.straightbourbon.com /articles/cclincoln.html (1547 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A package of dynamite which had failed to explode, though the fuse had been lighted, was found on the premises by the Chicago police.
		The Chicago representative of the whiskey combination ridiculed the idea that the Trust had had anything to do with this.
		The gauger through whom the secretary of the Trust had attempted to execute his plans was called as a witness before the Committee of Congress which investigated the Trust in 1893.
	www.textfiles.com /conspiracy/CN/cn11-17.txt (912 words)

	Appointment by Attorneys General of Special Counsel or Prosecutors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Whiskey Ring was a corrupt conspiracy between Department of Treasury revenue officials and whiskey distillers.
		Although one convicted conspirator later connected President Grant to the ring, the historical consensus is that Grant's problem was in appointing and standing by dishonest officials rather than any personal corruption.
		In January 1875, the Attorney General implemented Grant's wishes by directing the Whiskey Ring prosecutors to refrain from granting immunity.
	www.brookings.edu /gs/ic/genesis/whiskey.htm (1734 words)

	Benjamin Bristow Summary
		His greatest achievement was the dissolution of the Whiskey Ring, an intricate network of collusion and bribery between Federal revenue officers and distillers by which the government was cheated of millions of dollars in taxes.
		He prosecuted the so-called "Whiskey Ring," which was headquartered in St.
		Prominent among the ring's alleged accomplices at Washington D.C. was Orville E. Babcock, private secretary to President Grant, whose personal friendship for Babcock led him to indiscreet interference in the prosecution.
	www.bookrags.com /Benjamin_Bristow (1009 words)

	Whiskey Fudge Cake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time, the whiskey or brandy, and the vanilla.
		Pour the batter into the prepared cake ring and bake for 1 hour.
		Invert immediately onto the foil-covered cardboard round and run a sharp knife around the sides of the cake, loosening the cake from the ring.
	www.joycesfinecooking.com /Submitted%20Recipes/whiskey_fudge_cake.htm (283 words)

	meaning - musha ring dumma do dumma da
		Could 'musha ring umma do umma do' at one time been a bit of Gaelic Irish or did the writer simply run out of words, or is it just something that has the right sound about it.
		"Whiskey in the jar" might have been a mishearing of some Gaelic like "uisce ina dearadh" punning on dearadh, drawing his pistols and jenny or molly etc drawing water into his charges, or something.
		It seems to be based on a story where this drunk highwayman robs this Captain but is so sloshed that when he gets back to his girlfriend's place, she's finally had enough of him coming home trashed and so she decides to hand him over to the authorities.
	supersearch.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=8951&messages=54&page=1 (5527 words)

	Taste: Holiday whiskey cake comes in cookie form
		Patricia Baksa wants a recipe for a whiskey cake that she used to buy around the holidays.
		After the cake is done, poke holes in it and pour part of a mixture of butter, sugar and whiskey over it.
		Gene Groner shares a similar recipe, in which corn bread is baked in a ring mold.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/10/15/Taste/Holiday_whiskey_cake_.shtml (775 words)

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