Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a bullet zinged back and forth last week across the Detroit River as the U. S. continued its warlike efforts to check the flow of liquor smuggled in from Canada. Many a bitter word crackled back and forth across the U. S. Senate where Wets and Drys alike flayed the indefiniteness of the Hoover Prohibition policy...
...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...
University of Detroit Fred Warren Green, Michigan's Governor LL.D...
...Kansas and Detroit also have women's aeronautical associations...