Enforcement of 1920s' Prohibition was a formidable task. Bootleggers and rum runners (smugglers crossing a state border) were plentiful. Criminal elements organized because of the large profits in bootlegging. Much of the population had contempt for law enforcement during 1920s' Prohibition.
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Prohibition quickly produced bootleggers, speakeasies, moonshine, bathtub gin, and rum runners smuggling supplies of alcohol across state lines. In 1927, there were an estimated 30,000 illegal speakeasies--twice the number of legal bars before Prohibition.
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Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not comply with Prohibition (1920-1933). One suggested that the government distribute poisoned alcohol beverages through bootleggers (sellers of illegal alcohol) and acknowledged that several hundred thousand Americans would die as a result,
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Prohibition arrived in Jefferson County in 1920, the beginning of that glamorous decade of “flappers” and “cutty sarks” (short skirts), and bootleggers and “speak-easies” sprang up everywhere.
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The lessons of Prohibition remain important today. They apply not only to the debate over the war on drugs but also to the mounting efforts to drastically reduce access to alcohol and tobacco and to such issues as censorship and bans on insider trading, abortion, and gambling.[1]
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Most other bootleggers and prohibition violators did not make the front pages of the newspapers. W.H. Simpson, a prominent Washington caterer, and his wife catered elegant dinners, which included the finest fares in food and alcohol.
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