Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened for another sennight for lack of supplies, the Rev. D. J. Grant, Chief Inspector of Nova Scotia under the old Nova Scotia Temperance Act staged a last-minute raid on the old Maritime Hotel, long suspected as a speakeasy. Raiders carried out one half-bottle of contraband rum but their chief, the Rev. D. J. Grant, had to be removed to hospital, severely battered...
...prisoners was the "captain" of the E, Scowman Leonardo San Martino. He told Sanitation Commissioner Charles Hand that his barge was boarded by about 40 buccaneers from The Row, who deposited their contraband, threatened him and his crew with death if there was betrayal. At the E's dock, he said, another band of gunmen made the crew wait all afternoon & evening, finally help unload the liquor...
...Trade is treated as if it were contraband. The atmosphere is poisoned with suspicion and mistrust. Let us have brotherhood. It is only the Christian churches that...
...Chicago Brother Ralph Capone, awaiting sentence for his income tax fraud, was charged by the U. S. with conducting an airplane liquor smuggling racket which had brought in $1,400,000 worth of contraband from Canada...
Rising and lighting a lamp, the Saint took up his toothbrush, covered the bristles with coarse grey granules, began to scrub. "I am brushing my teeth with contraband salt. I presume I am being arrested for breaking the salt laws...