Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman defended the shooting officers, taking their word that the speedboat was a "rum runner," pointing out that Downey's companion had plenty of time to throw a cargo of liquor overboard before the boat docked...
...aftermath pertaining to the latest prohibition massacre when three rum-runners were slain with a minimum of warning by the Coast Guard defenders is proving almost as interesting as the incident itself, and certainly more humorous. The Treasury Department, although admitting it is not in complete possession of the facts, as candidly declares the Coast Guard is incapable of wrong-doing while engaged in the pursuitence duty. Assistant Secretary Low man yesterday was more astute or perhaps more bewildered, so far as silence may be taken as a criterion. It is merely a matter of choice...