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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
When that failed, they paid a hitman $15,000 to kill Remus, which also failed. [2] The controversy became public when Congressman Fiorello La Guardia , a fierce opponent of Prohibition , detailed records of these transactions on the floor of Congress in March 1926 as an example of how bootlegging profits were corrupting law enforcement.
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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. These ships taunted the Eighteenth Amendment ’s prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages . [ 1 ]
Roy Olmstead (September 18, 1886 – April 30, 1966) was one of the most successful and best-known bootleggers in the Pacific Northwest region during American Prohibition. A former lieutenant in the Seattle Police Department, he began smuggling alcohol from Canada while still on the force. Following his arrest for that crime, he lost his job in ...
The establishment of prohibition gave rise to smuggling of illicit liquor into the United States overland from Canada and from ships moored just outside the three-mile limit along the Atlantic seaboard. By 1921, "Rum Row" existed off New York City and the New Jersey shore as well as near Boston, and the Chesapeake and Delaware bays.
Prohibition Agent Irby U. Scruggs April 30, 1921 Gunfire Prohibition Agent John Watson May 2, 1921 Gunfire Prohibition Agent Charles Edward Howell July 17, 1921 Gunfire Prohibition Agent John Harvey Reynolds August 26, 1921 Gunfire Prohibition Agent John T. Foley October 26, 1921 Gunfire (Inadvertent) Prohibition Agent Jesse R. Johnson
Vine-Glo was a grape concentrate brick product sold in the United States during Prohibition by Fruit Industries Ltd, a front for the California Vineyardist Association (CVA), from 1929. It was sold as a grape concentrate to make grape juice from but it apophatically included a warning with instructions on how to make wine from it. [ 1 ]