Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time after May 5, the S.S. Pellegrini, big French tramp steamer, left her native waters. She slipped clumsily across the ocean, arrived, last week, at Rum Row. She was heavily laden. It may have been as much as 50,000 cases of liquor that she carried...
...Doheny trials. The people who were incompetent in these latter cases were not the people who brought about the indictment of Senator Wheeler in Washington. The writer also forgets that the "persecution" of Wheeler showed no laxity in prosecuting Senator Cameron, the officials of the Atlanta Penitentiary, and rum-corrupted attorneys. He is not expected to know of these incidents; the persons prosecuted were Republicans and their cases did not receive the publicity that the Wheeler case is receiving...
...even the war on Rum Row between the wet fleet and the dry has killed the news interest of a speech on the world court, especially when that speech is made by the fiery Senator Borah. But let the observer take heart at this apparent indication of depth and breadth of thinking in America, the cynic points out that the arguments advanced by the Senator are hopelessly trite and superficial...
...armada, nothing less, has taken the water against the rum ships now lying off New York harbor. With the balmy days of Spring, when visibility is high and nights are short, fifty guard ships have been mustered, each one of which will shadow a liquor ship and prevent, it possible, any intercourse with the shore. The rum fleet is to be besieged, blockaded on the high seas, until each ship is forced to play other waters in search of food...
...brat, insolently christened George Washington Bowen, who for many years startled all beholders by the striking resemblance of his features to those of the Father of His Country. In Jumel's house, Mistress Bowen waited for 15 years for New York to recognize her. She twiddled the indiscreet rum-importer out of his money and lands, even bamboozled him into marriage. But nobody ever called...