William Coors, Ultraconservative Head of Brewery, Dies at 102

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

William Coors, Ultraconservative Head of Brewery, Dies at 102

By Robert D. McFadden
Oct. 14, 2018

William K. Coors, who led one of America’s biggest beer makers for decades, but whose ultraconservative speeches and anti-union policies incurred boycotts and the wrath of organized labor, civil rights groups and minorities, died on Saturday at his home in Golden, Colo. He was 102.

The death was confirmed by Colin Wheeler, a spokesman for the Molson Coors Brewing Company.

A grandson of the stowaway from Germany who founded the Adolph Coors Company in the foothills of the Rockies in 1873, Mr. Coors was chairman from 1959 to 2000 and vice chairman until 2002, building a regional brewery into the nation’s third-largest, behind only Anheuser-Busch and Miller.

William Coors, a Princeton-educated chemical engineer whose first job was sweeping company floors, was widely credited with developing the recyclable aluminum can that has become standard for beer and soft drinks. In 1959, long before recycling was common, Coors offered a penny for each can’s return.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/obituaries/william-coors-dies-at-102.html

[CatMor]

1. It must make Brett Kavanaugh sad.

[lapfog_1]

2. Only the good die young.

yet another example.

[kacekwl]

3. We were forbidden to have Coors

in the house or anywhere because my dad said the were anti-union and employed scabbs. Dad was a BIG union guy.

[UTUSN]

4. How wingnuts evolve: 1-racist young, 2-figuring out their labor & customers are diverse

[dalton99a]

5. Blacks lack the intellectual capacity to succeed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/03/29/coors-ideas/d2f5c72b-7c51-4cfa-a24c-491d9abe121e/

COORS' IDEAS
By Dorothy Gilliam
March 29, 1984

Representatives of the Adolph Coors Co. said this week they are feeling comfortably "close to target" in their major hard-driving campaign to flood the Washington metropolitan area with their Colorado beer. But I wonder how many of the people who sip their suds know the views toward blacks of William K. Coors, the brewery's chairman and chief executive officer, who is a friend of President Reagan?

Blacks lack "intellectual capacity" and "one of the best things they slave traders did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains," Coors recently told minority business owners in Denver. He said if American blacks visited the African countries from which their ancestors were taken by slave traders they would be glad they were living in a country with a free-enterprise system, "a land of opportunity."

It's not that African blacks lack dedication, he said, "They lack the intellectual capacity to succeed, and it's taking them down the tubes."

[Mr. Big]

6. Coors is basically moose piss

We avoid them like the plague.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Now that Canadians own it, it probably is, to spite the sale.

[Mr. Big]

8. It was moose piss before Molson bought it.

I've lived in CO all my life, and know Coors.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. I remember when it was hard to get east of the Mississippi. One sip and Iron City was better.

.

And Iron City is just like Red, White & Blue -- shitty.

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[madinmaryland]

10. Iron City Beer!! Yeah, it's the only beer that gives me a headache the next morning.

It's ok to drink but damn, it's some nasty shit. Coors is nothing more than pisswater with no taste.

BTW, my cut from the #taxscam is worth about a six pack IC Light a week!!

[pansypoo53219]

11. NAZI, sorry, its a habit.