Now, Prohibition was being implemented on a national scale, and being enshrined in the Constitution no less. What followed was a litany of unintended consequences. The Volstead Act ...

War on Drugs. As Marijuana Prohibition Winds Down, What Will Control Freaks Ban Next? It isn't enough to end just one restrictive law, we have to disempower the prohibitionists.

The end of prohibition is reported on the front page of William Randolph Hearst's New York Daily Mirror on Dec. 6, 1933. On this date 90 years ago, the 21st Amendment was ratified, ending 14 and a ...

As a result, the Bureau of Prohibition assumed the role of chief law enforcement agency for Prohibition. However, funds allocated to the bureau only allowed for approximately 1,500 agents to serve ...

The prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events. The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an organization of many ...

Bureau of Prohibition agents were often referred to as dry agents (though corruption among this crew ran rampant). As an adjective, it describes a place where alcohol is not served. 11.

Little did they know, the bootlegger cases held flasks so those men could carry their own alcohol aboard trains and in public during Prohibition. 2. U. S. Official Bureau Of Prohibition Porcelain Sign ...

a freshly created prohibition bureau within the treasury department was meant to arrest violators, gather evidence, and destroy it, but congress authorized only 1,500 agents to cover the whole ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has hosted 4 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2009 Speech. The year with the most events was ...

Last week Assistant-Attorney-General-in-charge-of-Prohibition Gustaf Aaron Youngquist made a radio-network speech and his Prohibition Bureau director, Amos Walter Wright Woodcock made a statement.