Check this out... I found it on http://www.premier1.net/~raines/light.html
"Booze" Rutherford (seated, with hat), 2nd Watchtower president, circa. end of Prohibition.
Rutherford loved those keggers!
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Yeah...here's an account about a first-person experience of Ruthy's proclivity:
For years, [Walter] Salter was a close friend and confidant of the judge, but in 1936 he broke with him over doctrinal issues and was excommunicated. So on 1 April 1937 he published [a] letter...which was a stinging personal indictment of Rutherford...Salter claimed that he had purchased 'whiskey at $60.00 dollars a case' for the Watch Tower president 'and cases of brandy and other liquors, to say nothing of untold cases of beer'...Salter said with bitter irony: 'And oh Lord he [Rutherford] is so courageous...that he gets behind four walls...bellows away his dreams...and sends us out door to door to face the enemy while he goes from "drink to drink"...
Apocalypse Delayed, James Penton, p. 73
Craig