This gives a concrete legal outcome for Veach’s broader distiller–rectifier conflict: commercial rivalry helped produce durable category labels.
After the Pure Food and Drug Act left whiskey terminology unsettled, Taft’s 1909 compromise allowed both blends and straights to be called whiskey if their type was identified.
The terms “straight whiskey” and “blended whiskey” were adopted as the two basic types, and are still in use today.
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Chapter Nine — Purity and Populism
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheet 115. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.
Evidence
The terms “straight whiskey” and “blended whiskey” were adopted as the two basic types, and are still in use today.
Locator
Locator type: Page
Start: 115
End: 115
Source section: Chapter Nine — Purity and Populism
Context
After the Pure Food and Drug Act left whiskey terminology unsettled, Taft’s 1909 compromise allowed both blends and straights to be called whiskey if their type was identified.
Annotation
This gives a concrete legal outcome for Veach’s broader distiller–rectifier conflict: commercial rivalry helped produce durable category labels.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheet 115. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.