Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rum-Runner: "Well, it just happens they aren't there when we get across...
...easy to picture a high official of the Canadian Government riding across the Detroit River in a launch laden with Canadian liquor and a crew of day-to-day rum-runners. Yet such was the picture actually described last week in the Canadian House of Commons at Ottawa by William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue. The high official had been himself; the time, lately. His picture was as follows...
...Rum-Runner: "Oh, sure...
Minister Euler also told the House of Commons that on occasion U. S. Customs agents even assisted rum-runners to unload their cargoes. He said: "No effort, so far as we can see, is made by the U. S. to seize any of these boats. The U. S. customs always are notified by us an hour or two before the boats leave and occasionally we notify them as the boats are leaving. . . . U. S. customs officials have requested the Canadian authorities to discontinue our daily telephone notifications of clearance of liquor-laden vessels and have asked them to mail them...
...returning from a junket in Cuba and Panama. Upon his Congressional "free entry" permit, six trunks had been passed without customs inspection by Key West officials. At Jacksonville two of the trunks, dripping with liquor, had been seized, found to contain assorted jugs and bottles of choicest whiskey, brandy, rum (TIME, April...