Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General, major in the Army Reserve Corps, to be chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Law Division, and of Dwight E. Avis, Detroit Dry Agent, to be chief of the new corps of 200 "super-agents," the director's confidential detectives assigned to uncover big rum-running rings...
...opened for another sennight for lack of supplies, the Rev. D. J. Grant, Chief Inspector of Nova Scotia under the old Nova Scotia Temperance Act staged a last-minute raid on the old Maritime Hotel, long suspected as a speakeasy. Raiders carried out one half-bottle of contraband rum but their chief, the Rev. D. J. Grant, had to be removed to hospital, severely battered...
...forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their lucky colleagues and their respected chief time and time again in "Sylter waves," a local concoction of rum, claret & pepper...
...illegal bombs in the U. S.: 1) during a coalstrike war in Logan County, W. Va. in 1921, when 6,000 non-unionists employed by mine owners dug trenches, mounted machine-guns, sent bombers over their 8,000 unionist foes; 2 ) in 1926, during the Herrin, Ill. Birger-Shelton rum-running feud...
That the E obtained its liquor cargo at sea was obvious. As all the world knows, the ragged squadron comprising Rum Row lurks twelve miles off New York Harbor. But no one on the tug M. Moran, which towed the E, or on barge P, which was part of the tow, had seen anything untoward happen. A Federal inspector stationed on the M. Moran to see that the swill was dumped out far enough had nothing to report, but was exonerated by the harbor authorities because after the dumping he slept "as is the custom of Federal inspectors on such...