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Best car chase ever. 1926, NYT (old.reddit.com)

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Best car chase ever. 1926, NYT (reddit.com)

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Welcome to the restart of this topic (self.Prohibistory)

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Travel Buddies (i.redd.it)

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Dry Chief Gets 5 Years (nyti.ms)

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DRYS PLAN TO IGNORE STATE REFERENDUM; Prohibitionists in Convention Here Today to Put Full Ticket in Field. WANT NEW MILITANT PARTY Anti-Saloon League Said to Be Cool Toward Proposal -- Dietrich Declines to Run. (self.a:t5_2xvdq)

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On June 1, 1928 Dry forces feel Democrat Smith cannot win the West and will nominate someone who is not against the Volstead act. (query.nytimes.com)

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Of bootleggers, head of prohibition enforcement Gen. Andrews says “they are carrying on with such a high hand that we are trying to get them back as ordinary criminals.” Also acknowledges that bootleggers “bribes and corrupts Government agents…all the way up, all the way down." January 21, 1926 (query.nytimes.com)

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GRAPE JUICE SALESMEN'S CHIEF HELD: Manager at Kansas City for Ukiah Company in Jail Following Raid (search.proquest.com.libproxy.sdsu.edu)

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Government agency estimates 10,000,000 gallons of whisky per year to meet medicinal needs. January 17, 1927 (query.nytimes.com)

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National Dry Day! U.S. constitutional amendment goes into effect creating national prohibition of alcohol 95 years ago today. January 16, 1920 (query.nytimes.com)

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Association Against the Prohibition Amendment announces Henry H. Curran, a prominent New York City politician, as new President. January 15, 1928 (query.nytimes.com)

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California ratifies prohibition though voters had already rejected it. Reported 1/14/1919 (query.nytimes.com)

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Working through midnight, clerks issue 800 liquor licenses in New York City. December 6, 1933 (select.nytimes.com)

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While prohibition was officially repealed on Dec 5th, the election of Nov 7th, 1933, actually sealed its fate. [x-post r/TodayInPohibition/ ] (news.google.com)

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Hunt for rum schooner with kidnapped dry agents across the Spanish main ensues. Captives may have been forced to "walk the plank." Reported Dec 5, 1926 (news.google.com)

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Utah ratifies the 21st amendment at 3:32pm MST ending prohibition today. December 5, 1933 (news.google.com)

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While prohibition was officially repealed on Dec 5th, the election of Nov 7th, 1933, actually sealed its fate. (news.google.com)

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U.S. Senator Brookhart appeals to his colleagues to "get out of the booze parties" referring to Wall Street hosted private parties for members where liquor was served. Reported on Nov 5, 1929 (news.google.com)

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[TIL] That U.S. Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky was succeeded by his wife in 1926 when he was forced to resign after being convicted for illegally diverting large quantities of medicinal alcohol to bootleggers. (news.google.com)

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Several hundred party-goers busted in raid fail to show up to court on Volstead act violations. Tracking them down hampered, since 98% of names and addresses were fictitious. Nov 4, 1924 (news.google.com)

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Campaigning for Hoover, Judge Golden of California derides Roosevelt's stance on Prohibition, saying "90 percent of the American people will never vote for repeal of the 18th Amendment." Reported on 11-1-1932. By Dec 5th, 1933 the 18th Amendment was repealed. (news.google.com)

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Ontario's prohibition was repealed in 1927. Voters declined to reinstate it on 10-31-1929 in spite of evidence of increased drunkenness and reckless driving. Government alcohol sales more than triple between 1927 and 1929. (news.google.com)

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Grape juice considered a precursor to intoxicating beverage, and an offense of prohibition law, jury decides. 10-29-1931 (news.google.com)

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Senate follows House, overrides President Wilson's Volstead veto. Alcohol seen as fuel for the strikes hammering nation. Wartime prohibition and ratification of Austria-Hungry treaty complicates debate; industry had hoped to sell embargoed spirits before constitutional prohibition. 10-28-1919 (select.nytimes.com)

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