Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalistic uprising in China must now give their place in the public eye to an impending dispute that is of more personal interest to the people of the United States. Although the imbroglio in which this country and Great Britain have become involved over the sinking of an alleged rum-runner does not arise from conflicting opinions of Nationalists or Revolutionists, it is a matter of internal government that threatens to become a question of international importance...
They go clanking across the bar of the gambling table and drag at the tourist's pocket. One silver dollar purchases two cocktails; two whiskies; two tots of rum. Beer is 10 or 15 cents per glass, depending on the glitter of the dispensary...
...Montreal last week the Rev. Charles E. Combe of St. Jude's Anglican Church announced the foundation of the "Fellowship of the East, a mission to the bootleggers and rum runners of Eastern Canada...
Said the Rev. Combe: "Our plan is, I know, a bit amateurish but with a few motor cars (which we hope will be given us) and a small fleet of fast motor boats (which we are trying to get) we hope to reach even the most neglected and hardened rum runners...
...crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...