Word: leggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progression, replete with all the disasters that can befall a drunkard as he lurches toward the grave. It is brilliantly acted by a fine cast, coherently constructed and, unlike D. W. Griffith's miserable picture The Struggle, manufactured in the present tense. Good shot: a 'legger's plant in full operation, showing the printing presses for fake labels, the process of dousing whiskey bottles in brine to make them look as though they had come off a boat...
...were five death sentences to be commuted to life imprisonment. A blind magistrate who had robbed a Baptist church was to be paroled. So was a Paducah woman who had murdered with dynamite. The Governor reduced 150 prison sentences and closed his executive journal with clemency for a 'legger...
...Christmas presents Mrs. Hoover paid $80 for 40 pairs of candlesticks fashioned from the copper of illicit liquor stills. They were the product of veterans undergoing occupational therapy at Walter Reed Hospital. The Washington Police Department contributed the material following 'legger raids about the city...
...factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe...
...Fort Wayne, Ind. two Federal agents were shot and killed by a fleeing 'legger...