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Monsieur A Le Grand, proprietor of the French company which makes the sticky, sweetish brown liqueur called Benedictine, crisply told correspondents last week that U. S. citizens residing in France now handle bootleg shipments from that end. "Frankly these American bootleggers are the best of customers," said M. Le Grand. "We deliver our goods f. o. b. Havre or Bordeaux and are paid on the spot. For Benedictine we are paid $1 a bottle, and we do not complain, I assure you Messieurs. We are told that these same goods are sold in America for $10 a bottle...
...abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken an airplane ride to Bimini (bootleg base), a boat trip to Nassau, attended the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami, the Hialeah races. "It is evident," commented Judge Wilkerson, "that someone is lying...
...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...