Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became the Dry Hope of Prohibitors, including President Hoover, who believed that only by effective coordination, under one head, of investigation and prosecution of liquor violators could the law be fully enforced (TIME, Jan. 27). The Secretary of the Treasury retained his pre-Prohibition powers over permits for industrial alcohol. When his Treasury post of Prohibition Commissioner vanished under the new law, James Maurice Doran, chemist, became Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol in the Treasury Department...
...building that the new Prohibition bureau was retained in its old headquarters in the Southern Railway building on Pennsylvania Avenue. About 2,700 Dry agents and clerical employes were shifted to the Department of Justice payrolls, whereas 1,700 others were left with the Treasury to watch for industrial alcohol leaks. Of the 1931 Dry Appropriation, available July 1, the Justice Department took $9,000,000, the Treasury kept...
Once famed for its nightly swarm of bums staggering from one swinging door to another, Manhattan's Bowery has been a comparatively sober thoroughfare since Prohibition. The bums have been lounging in speakeasies, drugstores, paintshops where "smoke" (colored, usually poisonous, alcohol) could be purchased for 15? the glass, 50? the pint. Last week the Bowery bums were on the street again, pitifully wandering, finding neither swinging doors nor "holes in the wall...
Many a Bowery "smoke joint" was closed last week by the local Prohibition Administrator, Major Maurice Campbell; many another closed through fear. Thirty purveyors of cheap alcohol were held under $2,500 bail for arraignment before a Federal grand jury. In almost every case, the alcohol in evidence was of the type used to keep automobile radiators from freezing. Despite the reassuring names of some "smoke" salesmen (Mike Whiskey, Frank Barri), almost all 30 were dealing in liquid death...
Editorialists lauded Major Campbell's change from showily raiding clubs, nightclubs and hotels to doing "useful work" in the areas where liquor is not imported but is made from alcohol denatured or poisoned by the U. S. Government. In many a shop the agents bought drinks (two agents, though warned, went to bed with headaches) served directly from a can labelled "Denatured alcohol-Poison...