legislation, for social problems, 242
Lewis, Dr. Dioclesian, 36–37
Lewis, Frank, 201
Lincoln, Abraham, 32–33
temperance address (1842), 32
Lincoln Legion, 32–33
Lingle, Alfred J. “Jake,” 192–93
Lippmann, Walter, 238–39
liquor:
vs. beer, 16
called “good creature of God,” 7
condemnation of, 23–27
consumption figures, 12, 28, 147, 148, 158
as currency, 9
defense of, 23, 31
dire effects of, 14–16, 23–27, 59
homemade, 89
new brands of, 85
liquor (continued):
poisoned, 221–22
and politics, in America, 10–11
sale of, illegalization, 29
stocks of, 80, 96
taxes on, 33, 47, 233
watered, 127, 222
liquor industry, 26–27
lobbyists, 47–48, 68
Livingstone, Belle, 88
Locke, John (of Ohio), 55
Loesch, Frank J., 189
London, Jack, 26, 49–50
Long Island (New York) , 140–41
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 114
Lorimer, William, 180–81, 182
Luciano, “Lucky,” 99, 173, 178, 235, 240, 241
Lundin, Fred, 181, 182–84
Madeira, 12
Madison, James, 16
Mafia, 173, 235, 240
Maine, 28–29, 31
Malaga, 12
Mannington, Howard, 112, 114
Marcus, “John Jew,” 100
Marsh, Rev. John, 31
Hannah Hawkins, 31
Marxists, 3–4
Massachusetts, 12, 13, 28, 30, 31
Mather, Increase, 13
Mather, Cotton, 13
Matthews, Rev. Mark, 22
McAdoo, William Gibbs, 170
McCallum, Helen, 230–31
McCoy, Bill, 136–37, 139, 221
McGhee, Jimmy, 140–41
McKinley, William, 43
McLean, John R., 115
McLean, Ned, 115
McSorley’s saloon, 88
McSwiggin, William, 188
McTroy, Cary, 231
medicinal liquor, 84–85, 96–97, 100, 133
Medicine Lodge (Kansas), 41–42
Mellin, Bill, 168–69
Mellon, Andrew, 113, 224
Mencken, H. L., 73–74, 107, 238–39
methanol, 222
Methodists, 13
Mexico, 130
Michigan, 30, 165
middle class, 46
Midwest, 37, 172
Milwaukee (Wisconsin), 64, 236
Minnesota, 30, 77
Mississippi, 80
Mitchell, William D., 231
moderation, 13, 38–39
Moderation League, 223
Moerlein, Kristian, 65
Moét Chandon, 130
Mondi, Jimmy, 181, 190
Montana, 166
moonshine, 222
Moore, Harry, 236
Moran, “Bugs,” 192
Morgan, Burt, 104, 124–26
Morgan, Harry, 48
Morgenthau, Henry, 226
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 5, 242
Mulhouse (ship), 135
Mumaugh, Dr. Shelby, 217
Murphy, “Big Tim,” 189
Napa Valley (California), 85–87
Nation, Carry, 40–44
Nation, David, 41
Nebraska, 30, 80
Nevada, 166
Neville, W. L., 217
New Bedford (Massachusetts) 139–40
Newell, William, 50–51
New England, 37
New Hampshire, 30
New Jersey, 84, 158, 166, 167, 236, 240
New York (city), 43, 63, 81–82, 87–88, 154–57, 167, 169, 173, 176, 178, 221, 240–41
New York (state), 30, 165, 166, 169, 172, 228, 240 New York Times, 66
nightclubs, 88
Norfolk (Virginia), 169
Northwest (region of the U.S.), 135
Norwegian smugglers, 135
Nott, Dr. Eliphalet, 22–23
O’Banion, Dan, 186–87
Oberlin College, 53–54, 225
O’Donnell, Myles, 188
Ohio, 36–38, 54–61, 108
“Ohio gang,” 106
Old Lexington Club, 96
Olmstead, Roy, 137–39, 221
Olvany, George, 226
opium, 16
Oppenheimer, Beston S., 206
Oregon, 30, 48
organized crime, 239–41
Ormsby-Gore, W. G. A., 131
Orr, Bill, 114
Pacific Fur Company, 17
Palm, Fred, 165
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 69
Pasley, Fred D., 185
Pattison, John M., 57
Pennsylvania, 12, 30
Philadelphia (Pennyslvania), 43
Philanthropist, The, 18–19
Phillips, Carrie, 109, 112
pirates, 135
pledges, 33
police, collusion with criminals, 144, 173, 178, 183, 240–41
political corruption, 45, 58, 91, 102, 105–19, 152–54, 158, 175–93
politicians:
Americans’ distrust of, 239–41
bosses, 176
campaigns, 55, 56
and criminals, 162–63
liquor served and drunk by, 114–15, 164
politically “dry” but privately “wet,” 56–57, 108, 164
“wet” (anti-Prohibition), 171, 226–28
port, 12
Porter, Col. Daniel, 84
Portland (Maine), 28–29
Presbyterian Church, 38
priests, 86–87
Prohibition:
benefits of, 147–60
constitutional amendment first proposed, 58–61
damaging effects of, 91, 238–43
failure of, 88–89
and foreign policy, 130–31
nationwide, campaign for, 39–40
as political issue, 45–46, 162, 234
supporters of, 149–50, 233
as tool of social control, 3–4, 51–52
total, first advocacy of, 28
worldwide, 74–75
See also Temperance movement
Prohibition Bureau, 83–89, 136,
144, 151, 166–67, 169, 242
agents killed in line of duty, 152
corruption in, 152–54
prevented from doing its job, 159
Prohibition era:
desire to forget, 238
in novels and films, 91
as watershed in American history, 3
prohibitionists:
character of, 48, 143
propaganda of, 39–40
rise and decline of, 28–33
Prohibition party, 28–29, 40, 48, 52, 57
protection racket, 178
protest movements, nonviolent, 35
puritan ethic, 21, 63
Puritans, 8, 10, 13
rabbis, 87
racism, and prohibition movement, 50, 226–27
radio, smugglers’ use of, 138–39,
141–42 raids, 29
raisin cakes, 85–86, 232
Rand, Sally, 132
reform movements, 46–47, 49, 224, 239
religion, and temperance movements, 14, 21–22
Remus, George, 92–104, 119, 121–28, 160, 167, 168–69, 221
fall of, 121–28
murder case, 1–3
trial of, 195–219
Remus, Imogene, 1–2, 94, 128, 195
Remus, Romola, 94–95, 211
Republican party, 57, 61, 73, 107, 108, 111, 184, 185, 224
Rhode Island, 30
Rockefeller
, John D., 58, 149, 233–34
Rogers, John, 198, 199, 206
Rogers, Will, 172
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 170, 226, 228, 234–35, 237
Root, Elihu, 233
Rothstein, Arnold, 173
Rugby, 96
rum, 10, 12
rumrunners, 129–45
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 14–16, 22
Russell, Rev. Howard Hyde, 54–55
Ryan, Mike, 183 Ryerson, Mrs. Gabriel, 211
Sabin, Pauline Morton, 224, 229
sacramental wine, 87, 157
St. Louis (Missouri), 43, 236
St. Pierre and Miquelon, 130
Saint Valentine’s Day massacre, 192
saloons, 151, 236
condemnation of, 22, 27
hours of, 28, 50
owned by breweries, 58, 178
political involvement of, 10–11, 165
social function of, 49–50
taxes and licenses, 50, 58
Sartain, John, 195, 198
Scaife, Capt. H. L., 118
Scandinavia, 45
schools, evils of drink taught in, 39–40
Schultz, “Dutch,” 141, 173
Schwaab, John, 67 Scotland, 45
Scottish-Americans, 32
Seabury, Samuel, 235
sentences, mandatory, 165
Serritella, Daniel A., 189, 190
Sewell, Dr. Thomas, 22
Sheppard, Morris, 236
Shevlin, James, 154
Shook, Chester R., 201–17
Sibbald, Walter K., 202, 218
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,” 173, 240
Simpson, Sir George, 17
Sinclair, Andrew, 3
Sinclair, Harry, 116–17
slavery, 29
Slovick, Joseph, 144–45
Small, Len, 184, 187
Small, Rev. Sam, 72–73
Smith, Al, 166, 169–71, 225–28, 235
Smith, Jess, 108–9, 112, 117–18, 119, 122, 127, 160
Smith, Mai, 119
Smith, Rev. Matthew Hale, 30
Smith, Moe, 154–57
smugglers, 84, 129–45
as folk heroes, 129, 134
interception of, at sea, 142–45
profits of, 130–33, 136
tricks of, 132
Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, 12
“Song of the Moonshiners,” 131
Sons of the Soil, 31
South, 172
South Carolina, 13
Spanish Marie, 134
speakeasies, 87–88, 165–67, 236
Spiegel, Frederick S., 65, 67
Spokane (Washington), 84
Sprague, Albert A., 186
Squibb distillery, 96
Stanley, Owen, 131
states:
lax enforcement of Prohibition, 166
statewide prohibition laws, 30
Stevens, Walter, 187
Stinson, Roxy, 109, 118
Stork Club, 87, 88, 232
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 18
Stratton, Harry, 101
Stuart, Frank J., 143
Stuyvesant, Peter, 9
Sullivan, Mark, 106
Sunday, Billy, 82–83, 236, 242
Swanson, John A., 191
Sweitzer, Robert M., 182, 186
Tacoma (Washington), 48
Taft, Charles P, 66
Taft, Charles P. 11, 201–18
Taft, William Howard, 80, 116, 161, 201–2
Tammany Hall, 169, 171, 172, 176, 226
taverns, 10 taxes:
on liquor, 33, 47, 233
on saloons, 50, 58
Teapot Dome scandal, 116–17
“Temperance Manual” (Edwards), 23
Temperance movement:
in colonial times, 13–14
in Europe, 45–46
international, 72–75
in nineteenth century, 21–33
organizers of, 36
as political issue, 10
religious motive of, 14, 21–22
social class concerns in, 46–47
See also Prohibition
Temperance Recorder, 21
Temperance societies (voluntary), 18–19, 30–31
Terkel, Studs, 237
Hard Times, 237
territorial waters, 132, 139
third party movements, 48
Thompson, “Big Bill,” 112, 173, 176, 177, 179–78, 179–93
Thompson, Elizabeth “Mother,” 36–38
Times (Seattle), 149
Times Square, 88
Times-Star (Cincinnati), 66
tobacco, 41
Tom August (ship), 134–35
Torrio, Johnny, 95, 173, 177, 184, 185–86
travelers, drinking abroad by, 158–59
Treasury Department, 83
Tresca, Carlo, 173
Tribune (Chicago), 181, 192–93
Truesdale, Harry, 207–13
Twenty-One (club), 87, 232
United States:
political system, flaws of, 162–63
smugglers’ role in history of, 129
See also America
United States Brewers Association, 47–48, 68–70
“untouchables,” 124
Untouchables, The (TV series), 175
urbanization, 49
Utah, 236
van Pelt, John Calvin, 37
Vermont, 30
Versailles Peace Conference, 74
Veterans Administration, 115–16
vineyards, 85–87
visitation bands, 36–38
Volstead, Andrew J., 77, 159, 171
Volstead Act, 77–80
damaging effects of, 3, 80, 221–23
enforcement of, 83–84, 154–60, 166, 171–72, 195
flouting of, 84–89
last night before going into effect, 81–82
penalties for violation, 78, 165, 166
political resistance to, 158
reason for failure, 79