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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
Right now the consensus is leaning toward this is probably one of the bootlegging tunnels we’ve heard about over the last 100 years, but we can’t say for sure yet.”
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aerial view of Phase II of the McCook Reservoir under construction in 2023. The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the harmful effects of flushing raw sewage into Lake Michigan by diverting ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration advanced a key $6.88 billion grant to help build a long-delayed new railway tunnel between New York City and New Jersey, which would be the largest ...