Word: bootleged
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...pocket the U. S. citizenry pays for Prohibition, out of another for bootleg liquor. Next year the enforcement funds will be some 37 millions-$13,500,000 for the Prohibition Bureau, $14,686,798 for the Coast Guard, $9,000,000 for the Department of Justice. The House passed on the first two items last week...
...Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being smuggled back into Canada, often "cut" in the dreadful U. S. bootleg way, and distributed through unlicensed channels...
...difficult to prophesy election results in Philadelphia. The effect of Philadelphia's bootleg investigation had to be considered (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). In that citadel of Vare Republicanism the Volstead act carried all its ghostly, malevolent outriders. Flagrant police corruption had been exposed. Suspects in higher positions has ceased to wink, begun to blink. The Vare regime was receiving unwelcome, unpleasant publicity...
...Hoff who had been characterized as the bootleg tsar, Borgian in intrigue, monstrously and illicitly wealthy. But he declared himself bankrupt. And his lawyer suggested lavish Hoff philanthropy. Students of the situation wondered whether the term "philanthropy" included the hundreds of Christmas turkeys that policemen had received from "Boo Boo" in recent years...
District Attorney John Monaghan continued, last week, his investigation of the Philadelphia bootleg ring. During six weeks of activity he has arrested 33 policemen, a member of the State Legislature, sundry racketeers. He has set political trouserlegs a-trembling, has looked suave, representative Philadelphians squarely in the eye. Once he hustled for 44 hours without sleep...