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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
The following day, Allen Curry, the Federal District Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, publicizes the names of those indicted, including Imogene Remus, the estranged wife of Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus, and future Chicago Outfit associate Edward J. "Easy Eddie" O'Hare, as well as numerous politicians and criminals based in ...
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS - In the 1920s and early 1930s, Atlantic Highlands held a special distinction. “It was considered to be the bootlegging capital of the eastern United States during Prohibition ...
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 ...
The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois. They were the main rivals of the famous bootlegger Charles Birger and his gang. In 1950, the Saturday Evening Post described the Sheltons as "America's Bloodiest Gang".
It found the tunnel’s construction and operations would significantly affect the Delta’s endangered and threatened fish species, tracts of important regional farmland and tribal cultural ...
Franklin L. Dodge, Jr. (July 29, 1891 – November 26, 1968) was a Bureau of Investigation agent in the early 1920s who had an affair with Imogene Remus, the wife of millionaire bootlegger George Remus. [1] Franklin L. Dodge, Jr. was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1891. His father, Franklin L. Dodge, Sr. was a prominent lawyer and businessman who ...
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 ...