Word: boating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman defended the shooting officers, taking their word that the speedboat was a "rum runner," pointing out that Downey's companion had plenty of time to throw a cargo of liquor overboard before the boat docked...
...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...