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George Remus (November 13, 1876 [1] – January 20, 1952) was a German-born American lawyer who was a bootlegger during the early days of Prohibition, [2] and later murdered his wife Imogene. [ 3 ] Early life
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. The term rum-running is more commonly applied to smuggling over water; bootlegging is applied to smuggling over land. Smuggling usually takes place to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular ...
Leander Cephas Whitlock: Commodore Kaestner's longtime lawyer who assists and mentors Jimmy and Gillian and has also known Nucky for many years preceding. George Remus: An Ohio-based medicinal alcohol bootlegger who also owns a pharmaceutical empire over there, is connected to the mafia underworld and is also part of the "Ohio Gang" with Harry ...
October 6 - As Augusta Imogene Remus is riding in a cab with her twenty-year-old daughter, enroute to a hearing finalizing her divorce from George Remus, Cincinnati's "Bootleg King," her estranged husband has his chauffeur pursue Mrs. Remus's cab. The vehicle carrying George Remus overtakes the cab and blocks it in Eden Park, after which George ...
Pacific coast offshore rum-runner Malahat. A rum row was a Prohibition-era term (1920–1933) referring to a line of ships loaded with liquor anchored beyond the maritime limit of the United States.
During his visit, Fitzgerald met George Remus, a gangster that became the model for Jay Gatsby. His experiences in The Seelbach's elegant rooms inspired Fitzgerald to use the hotel as a model ...
The Michigan legislature prohibited the sale of liquor in 1917, three years before national Prohibition was established by a constitutional amendment. [1] [2] Along with temperance supporters, industrialist Henry Ford owned the River Rouge plant and desired a sober workforce, so he backed the Damon Act, [2] a state law that, along with the Wiley Act, prohibited virtually all possession ...
A Delta water-delivery project — one tunnel or two — has been touted by Jerry Brown and Newsom’s teams as a way of correcting a fundamental problem with California’s delivery system that ...