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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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The Psilander affair was an incident that occurred in Skálafjørður near Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands on 20 June 1940 in World War II. The British Royal Navy captured the four Swedish destroyers HSwMS Psilander , Puke , Romulus and Remus , together with the Swedish Lloyd passenger ship Patricia and the Trelleborgs Ångfartygs tanker Castor ...
Prohibition Agent Kirby Frans November 20, 1920 Gunfire Warehouse Agent Wiliam B. Anderson December 2, 1920 Gunfire Prohibition Agent Richard D. Griffin December 6, 1920 Gunfire Prohibition Agent Richard W. Jackson December 16, 1920 Gunfire Prohibition Agent James Francis McGuiness December 24, 1920 Gunfire Prohibition Agent Ernest Walter Walker
He inherited Jack Daniel's in 1907. [2] Due to Prohibition, he was unable to sell whiskey from 1920 onward. [2] As Lynchburg was a market town for mules at the time, Motlow sold harnesses instead. [2] Motlow sued the Moore County court to be able to reopen his distillery after the end of Prohibition in 1933, but he was only able to do so in ...
Born in 1886 to farmers John and Sarah Olmstead, in Beaver City, Nebraska, Roy moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1904. [3] Working in the Moran Brothers Co. shipyard before joining the Seattle Police Department on May 16, 1907, he rose rapidly through the ranks and was promoted to sergeant on April 5, 1910; his brothers Frank and Ralph were also on the Seattle force. [3]
Ambassador from Persia (波斯國), visiting the court of the Tang dynasty. The Gathering of Kings (王会图), circa 650 CE. The Portraits of Periodical Offering (simplified Chinese: 职贡图; traditional Chinese: 職貢圖; pinyin: Zhígòngtú) were tributary documentative paintings (with illustration on each of the portrait) produced by various Chinese dynasties and later as well in other ...