Word: bootlegging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with 22 district administrators, with salaries up to $10,000 (an effort to get men of better caliber). Last week, Controller General McCarl ruled that the most he could pay his administrators was $7,500. Believing that large amounts of industrial alcohol are being diverted to bootleg channels, General Andrews also wished to have charge of issuing permits for withdrawals of such alcohol. Commissioner Blair, who has charge of this business now and collects the tax on it, insisted that control of industrial alcohol be vested, as heretofore, with him. Secretary Mellon will probably have to decide this question...
...Federal activities will be largely confined to the major sources of bootleg liquor- ignooring minor Violations, to stop the sources of supply; "importation, diversion of legitimately manufactured alcohol, illigitimate manufacture and transportation of alcohol and alcoholic beverages ... the bootleg industry...
...Haynes, U. S. Prohibition Commissioner, celebrating the completion of his fourth year in office, announced : "The big bootleg operator is making his last stand, as successful enforcement of the prohibition law closes one source of illicit liquor supply after another...
Ernest Truex plays, in that softly purring, neatly whimpering style of his, a little drug clerk out of a job, who succumbs in a moment of weakness to harboring a fearsome suitcase, crammed with bootleg liquor. Unknown to him, it also contains illicit narcotics and, when these are discovered, the little clerk naturally goes into the toils. Eventually he turns the tables, captures the head of the dope gang, is awarded by the authors a berth on the detective force out of gratitude for his ingenious acting...
Good Scotch Bootleg for a spree...