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CUP OF JOE
By General Order 99 of 1914, Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels abolished the consumption of alcohol aboard U.S. naval vessels. That decree made coffee the strongest drink on board, so sailors thereafter are said to have demanded their "cup of Joe."