The Roaring Roaring Twenties Scrapbook
Title | The Roaring Roaring Twenties Scrapbook PDF eBook |
Author | John Fuller |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780874405576 |
The Roaring Twenties Scrapbook
Title | The Roaring Twenties Scrapbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Baker's Plays |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Theater |
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Baker's Roaring Twenties scrapbook ... Material to provide ... a full evening revue of the Roaring Twenties ... Edited by John G. Fuller
Title | Baker's Roaring Twenties scrapbook ... Material to provide ... a full evening revue of the Roaring Twenties ... Edited by John G. Fuller PDF eBook |
Author | Walter H. BAKER (Publishers.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1960 |
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The 1920s Scrapbook
Title | The 1920s Scrapbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780954795467 |
The arts.
The 1970s Scrapbook
Title | The 1970s Scrapbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Piglobal Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780954795405 |
Full of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glamrock and disco mania.
Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
Title | Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties PDF eBook |
Author | Philip P. Mason |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2024-05-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814351050 |
A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan. On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages. Yet the resulting peace and tranquility predicted never materialized. The Prohibition experiment failed dismally in the United States, and nowhere worse than in Michigan. The state's close proximity to Canada, where large amounts of liquor were manufactured, made it a major center for the smuggling and sale of illegal alcohol. Although federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies attempted to stop the flow of liquor into Michigan, an astounding seventy-five percent of all illegal liquor brought into the United States was transported across the Detroit River from Canada. Using police and court records, newspaper accounts, and interviews with those who lived during the time, Philip P. Mason has constructed a fascinating history of life in Michigan during Prohibition. He regales readers with stories of the bungled efforts by officials at every level to control the smuggling and sale of illegal alcohol. Most entertaining are the creative smuggling efforts undertaken by citizens of all walks of life-the poor, middle class, and affluent, upstanding citizens and organized criminals and gang members. By 1928 Prohibition was a major issue in the presidential campaign. In 1933, with the support of President Franklin Roosevelt, Michigan's governor William Comstock, and other leaders, the Twenty-first Amendment was passed, repealing Prohibition. Michigan was the first state to ratify the amendment on April 10, 1933, and soon the Detroit River was returned to pleasure boats and fishing and commercial vessels whose holds no longer carried illegal liquor.
Baker's Roaring Twenties Scrapbook
Title | Baker's Roaring Twenties Scrapbook PDF eBook |
Author | John Grant Fuller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Musicals |
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