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Word: chimneysweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...gambling evidence raided the Foran hunting lodge at Mt. Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: 240 Cases | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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