Word: bootlegged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a huge bootleg trade in contraceptives. Accurate and competent advice in regard to Birth Control would save the lives of thousands of women, and a doctor who has this information and does not give it. incurs a terrible responsibility."-John Whitridge Williams, Johns Hopkins obstetrician...
Sharp Loesch. Flaying "those murderers and arch criminals" who operate the bootleg business, Commissioner Loesch, Chicago's famed old crime investigator, declared: "Effective national enforcement of the 18th Amendment in its present form is unattainable; therefore steps should be taken immediately to revise the Amendment." He favored the Anderson plan...
...Would 2,000 cases of champagne cost less than $100,000 or $50 per case at present bootleg prices? If so, how much would be left out of the total you give as "cost" for food, decoration, music...
Long have U. S. citizens been peddled kegs of California and New York grape juice, destined to become wine in the citizens' homes. These were semi-bootleg sales, unnoticed by the Prohibition Bureau. There was no advertising, only a door-to-door canvass. But last week in Milwaukee there appeared large billboard and full-page newspaper advertisements for a grape concentrate called "Vine-Glo." Beside thin-stemmed glasses of ruby and amber liquids were the words: "You can't buy it from peddlers. Not on sale at any store. Never served in any restaurant-BUT YOU CAN HAVE...
...Bootleg buyers never have known positively whether or not the law applied to them. They and the Government wanted an explanation of the Act's language: ". . . No one shall . . . purchase . . . any liquor without first obtaining a permit from the Commissioner so to do." This sentence might apply to the general public or only to special purchasers (i. e. drugstores) who obtained liquor from illegal sources. The U. S. Supreme Court last week handed down a decision in the case of one James E. Farrar, Boston elevated streetcar operator arrested for liquor-buying: he was not guilty.* Explained Associate Justice George...