Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tentative arrangements have been made by the Union to secure Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard, to deliver a talk on the sea-fighting along rum...
...into the ocean on the last leg of her northward voyage. Only a few miles beyond Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast she sighted a light off her starboard bow. The light was low on the water and for a time was taken as the light of a rum runner, then suddenly it became apparent that the boat carrying the light was about to cross the steamer's bow. The Captain of the City of Rome set up a warning shriek of his whistles. He ordered the helm hard astarboard and the engines full speed astern...
...somebody has decided to "get" Mr. Cohen "good". Last week a Federal Grand Jury indicted him on charges that he is involved in "a gigantic rum conspiracy". The charge specifies a single instance in which 4,250 cases of rum were allegedly smuggled in from Havana with Mr. Cohen's connivance...
...coast guard established a strict blockade along the Atlantic coast to break up the rum row that stretched from New London, Conn., to the New Jersey coast. It succeeded. Rum row practically disappeared. But it has reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, furnishing gulf ports with many kinds of dangerous drinkables. Last week the Coast Guard announced that it would extend its blockade in that direction, operating from Biloxi against the rum runners from Bimini...
...developed that a report which newspaper correspondents had sent out to the effect that the President had seen rum runners anchored in front of his house at Swampscott and had asked General Lincoln C. Andrews (see PROHIBITION) to clean up the Massachusetts coast was based on the facts 1) that some vessels which were observed on the bay might have been rum runners, 2) in a cottage near White Court previous to the President's arrival, a liquor cache had been discovered. The President denied that he had made any request of General Andrews...