Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...John Bull has a field day with the U.S. v. John Barleycorn. Proffered bribes to a Prohibition agent ran as high as $300,000 a week; Al Capone's liquor take was $75 million a year. At the outset, the Department of Justice had no plans for handling Volstead Act violations; after the act had been in force for one month, the first open court date in New York State was three years...