Word: quist
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Directly in charge of Dry work under Enforcer-in-Chief Mitchell, was Assistant Attorney General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry but not a fanatic." Responsible for actual Dry enforcement under Assistant Attorney General Youngquist was Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, appointed director of Prohibition fortnight...
...Seattle, Al Lindberg stole some turkeys from his pal, Axel Quist. Axel Quist thumped Al Lindberg. Al Lindberg had Axel Quist haled into court. Ordered to pay a fine, Axel Quist said to Al Lindberg; "Say, old pal, lend me $25 to pay my fine, will you?" Al Lindberg then loaned Axel Quist...