Word: bootlegged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn, rough-tough Johnny Torrio, ex-Chicago bootleg king and Al Capone's sometime mentor, who quit the rackets after he was shot up in 1925, heaved a big sigh of relief. At his solicitation, the FBI had finally rounded up two men accused of sending him a threatening letter last September...
...went to work for Johnny Torrio, a First Ward vice and bootleg racketeer, running a saloon and brothel (at $75 a week) on South Wabash Avenue. He did his work well. Soon he became Torrio's field general and drill sergeant, and was cut in on a $100,000-a-year profit. Chicago began to hear the newcomer's name. It was Al Capone...
Under this jurisprudence, wartime bootleg liquor dealers were punished severely on charges of contributing to inefficiency of workers and hindering war production...
...Kansas' professional Republicans, the dry law is a sacred cow. For 66 years-long before national prohibition came & went-they have tended it lovingly, warded off all abuse and slander. They simply looked the other way while millions of quarts of bootleg stuff poured across the border from Missouri and Colorado...
...generally took a bootleg murder to get "foreigners' " names in Cleveland's big dailies in those days. The city's 36 nationality groups lived together as hostile neighbors. One day in 1926, Andrica called on Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Scripps-Howard Press. He brandished a batch of scribbled items, registered a heavily accented complaint...