Word: bootlegging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great flea in this case is the Bootleg Industry, which preys on Lax Citizens. The smaller flea is represented by the type of thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate in one of the best streets: This is not front the Anti-Saloon League nor from a prohibition crank. It is from analysts who know their subjects...
...permissive features of the law controlling industrial and non-beverage liquor cannot be appropriately transferred to the Justice Department. The suggested plan would leave the supply of bootleg liquor with the revenue collectors, who seem more interested in collecting revenue than in preventing the diversion of liquor to beverage use. We would have a system resulting in a 'buck-passing' contest. It would be confusion worse confounded...
...would remove the control of industrial alcohol from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the Prohibition Unit. The League claims that "6,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol was used last year to supply the illicit trade. Reduced to 40% whiskey, this provided 240,000,000 half pints of bootleg." The bill would also place the Prohibition Unit under the merit svstem. Secretary Mellon approved this bill. Its last feature, the application of civil-service rules to the Unit, is generally approved...
...Bishop Kinsolving's resolutions were adopted, 43 to 42. The church will not bootleg religion...
...been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...