Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vermont's Green, shot Feb. 15, 1924, as a bystander in a Pennsylvania Avenue rum-gun fracas, was voted $7,500 by the Senate. He spent the money to pay immediate medical bills, later repaying the full amount to the Senate Contingent Fund. A permanent pension for him was discussed but never voted...
...Miller's, for in stance, were classed as a misdemeanor rather than a felony, it would not come under the "habitual" act. The Michigan court gave its imprimatur to the law, when a few days later it upheld the life sentence imposed upon one Fred Pal, Lansing rum peddler, who three times had been convicted of felony, convicted again for possessing a pint...
...Liberty cut air funnels toward San Juan, Porto Rico. From that point a tangential trip was made to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Governor Waldo E. Evans played host. Bewailed was the lack of famed Virgin Island rum, but St. Thomas is U. S. territory. Back in San Juan, Publisher Patterson and Daughter Alicia paid a call on Governor Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin...
...plan submitted on Prohibition enforcement, no fewer than 23,230 competitors rushed forward with suggestions. Came a plan from a general in the Brazilian army. Came plans from African, Asiatic, Oceanic missionaries; from Connecticut tobacco-chewers, from Pittsburgh gin-millers. Came plans from "sorrowing mother," "drunkard's widow," "rum runner's deserted wife." Came also a plan from Major Chester Paddock Mills, onetime (1926-27) Prohibition Administrator for the New York City district. Last week the awarding committee, headed by President-Emeritus William Oxley Thompson of Ohio State, University,*finished its judging, announced its decision. The winner...
According to Dr. Doran and his men, smuggling by sea has been suppressed to one-eighth or one-fifth of what it used to be when Rum Rows twinkled off the coasts at Christmas time. According to Mrs. Willebrandt, the Canadian traffic "continues to be unsolved." It is on that front that the Prohibiters will work hardest next year. A step projected is to revise the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty, which now provides only that Canada shall advise the U. S. of liquor clearances from her ports. Perhaps Canada will be induced to declare it illegal...