Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agents, most of whom have worked without pay since Dec. because of a patronage-greedy deficiency bill amendment wangled by Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, had seized 900 stills, 119 automobiles and 40,204 gal. of bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered-a telephoned tip-off to a Boston opium...
...done no mean growing in her first four summers (played with delicate tenderness and piping falsetto by Robert Hormell). The plots of Squire Cribbs (snarled by James Wood from behind the blackest of moustaches) come to early fruition as the supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from the prison cell toward which the wretch of a Squire is directing...
Herbert Hoover had barely unpacked his trunks in the White House when Prohibition's most spectacular international incident arose to embarrass him. Off the coast of Louisiana U. S. Coast Guard cutters chased the rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend...
William Henry Dick of Memphis swept an expert eye up the mighty Mississippi, up all its northern tributaries, up the Wisconsin, the Minnesota, the Skunk, the Turkey, the Rum, the Black, the Zumbro, the Bad Axe, the Sauk. He saw streams swollen, lands saturated by heavy rains, abnormally early snows. If spring rains should be torrential...
...close yesterday with the bags not entirely empty. Many and various were the items obtained while scavenging in the College dormitories, ranging from a butterfly not with which the donor used to catch flies for a chameleon he once bought at the circus, to a bottle half full of rum which the owner forced upon the embarrassed collector with the pious hope that it might do some one more good than...