Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a race between shadowy contraband-carrying rumrunners and swift, searchlight playing patrol boats has been run on the narrow Detroit river. Last week 400,000 persons lined the river's edge to watch millionaires race millionaires...
...case. Customs Inspector James McCabe, working nearby, witnessed the incident, saw the bottles. The Congressman went to a telephone, called the Custom House, obtained a "free entry" order. Liquor was not mentioned in that telephone conversation. The Congressman was thereupon passed, tak- ing with him his four bottles of contraband...
...piece called Guns. The first act was laid in a speakeasy in Manhattan, the second in a speakeasy in Chicago, the third at the Mexican border. Charlie O'Connor, Chicago racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined O'Connor in the alien-running scheme. What he turned out to be after all only faintly interested slim audiences, their tympanic membranes offended...
...officials being bribed and debauched and of innocent victims being shot down by overzealous officers in their efforts to enforce the Volstead Act. "Many of our representative citizens, who would not think of violating any other law, continuously violate the Volstead Act, or conduce to its violation, by buying contraband liquor from bootleggers, thereby enriching the underworld beyond the dreams of avarice. "We cannot shut our eyes...
...Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles of honor and morality by not only directing and manipulating a large amount of contraband merchandise but also by using my name in telegraphic orders to protect such merchandise and to assure himself of immunity...