Federal Prohibition Agent

Special Agent Eliot Ness and several members of The " Untouchables ", who had worked for the Prohibition Bureau while the Volstead Act was still in force, were transferred to the ATU.

With no background in law enforcement, but speaking several languages ( Yiddish, Hungarian, German, Polish, with a little Russian, French, Spanish and Italian ) in addition to English, Izzy Einstein signed up as Prohibition Agent No. 1.

* Izzy wrote an autobiography telling of their exploits, called Prohibition Agent No 1 ( 1932 ).

* Eliot Ness, legendary American Prohibition Agent, notable for being the man who brought down gangster Al Capone.

The Bureau of Prohibition is featured prominently in the HBO period crime series Boardwalk Empire, particularly through the character of Agent Nelson Van Alden.

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It included the provision for a court to interpret the treaty, and Article 3 " Prohibition of torture " stated ; " No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

The Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985 ( Act No. 72 of 1985 ) repealed the provisions of the 1957 act that prohibited interracial sex, and repealed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races.

Islamic Banking and Interest: a study of the Prohibition of Riba and its Contemporary Interpretation by Abdullad Saeed, Bibliotheca Orientalis, LV11 No. 5 / 6, September – December 2000 column 736 – 739.

The Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, known in short as the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, was adopted by the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) in 1999 as ILO Convention No 182.

Quoted from The Emperor Wears No Clothes-The Authoritative Historical Record of the Cannabis Plant, Marajuana Prohibition & How Hemp can still Save the World!

Consider what happened during World War 1,, when the Protestant churches united to push the Prohibition law through Congress.

The Ottawa Treaty ( Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction ) came into force on March 1, 1999.

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* April 1 – U. S. Bureau of Prohibition founded ( under Department of the Treasury ).

Camejo lost the election to Governor Gray Davis, but he polled 393, 036 votes, for 5. 3 % of the vote, the largest vote total for a third-party in the California governor's race since 1946, when Henry R. Schmidt of the Prohibition Party polled 7. 1 %.

Murphy took office on January 1, 1924 and served seven years during the Prohibition Era.

From 1991 to 2002, this was regulated by the Teerölverordnung ( Carbolineum By-law ), and since 2002 has been regulated by the Chemikalien-Verbotsverordnung ( Chemicals Prohibition By-law ), § 1 and Annex, Parts 10 and 17.

* Edna L. Bowling ( Prohibition ) – 9, 857 ( 1. 64 %)

On April 1, 1927, it became an independent entity within the Department of the Treasury, changing its name from the Prohibition Unit to the Bureau of Prohibition.

On July 1, 1930, the Prohibition Bureau was transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice.

Eugene Wilder Chafin ( November 1, 1852 – November 30, 1920 ) was an United States politician from the Prohibition Party.

He was the Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1908 election and 1912 election receiving 253, 840 and 207, 972 votes, respectively, approximately 1. 5 % each time.

* James W. Frizzell ( Prohibition )-3, 776 ( 1. 87 %)

* William Gisriel ( Prohibition )-2, 913 ( 1. 40 %)

A Prohibition Party candidate polled about 1. 3 %.

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In Singapore, tobacco advertising was completely banned on 1 March 1971, whereby all kinds of advertising on newspapers and magazines was strictly prohibited, under the Prohibition of Advertisements relating to Smoking Act, 1970.

The Quinte area played a vital role in bootlegging during Prohibition in the United States, with large volumes of booze being produced in the area, and shipped via boat on the Bay to Lake Ontario finally arriving in New York State where it was distributed.

The New York plant was soon shut down due to Prohibition, yet during this time Cuba became a hotspot for US tourists.

He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.

Prior to Prohibition, some of the finest rum distilleries were located in New England.

In New Zealand, prohibition was a moralistic reform movement begun in the mid-1880s by the Protestant evangelical and Nonconformist churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and after 1890 by the Prohibition League.

In New Zealand, prohibition was a moralistic reform movement begun in the mid-1880s by the Protestant evangelical and Nonconformist churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and after 1890 by the Prohibition League.

Tavistock's secession from Haddonfield, New Jersey, the original site of the club, is said to have been driven by the fact that was ( and remains ) a dry borough, though Tavistock was formed in 1921 during Prohibition when liquor would have been banned.

During the Prohibition era, several cutters were assigned to Cape May to foil rumrunners operating off the New Jersey coast.

Sinclairville was the birthplace of New Deal theoretician Rexford Tugwell ( 1891 – 1979 ), and of Charles W. Dorsett ( 1850 – 1936 ), Swedenborgian and Prohibition Party leader, whose wife, Martha Angle Dorsett ( 1851 – 1918 ) was the first woman attorney in Minnesota.

Upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy called the 300 Club at 151 W. 54th Street in New York City.

This internal war devastated the Prohibition era operations and street rackets that the New York families controlled with the Irish crime groups.

He supported Prohibition, opposed FDR, and worked against FDR's New Deal.

From 1922 to 1924, he was US Attorney for the Western District of New York, famous for his energetic enforcement of Prohibition.

Funk, as chairman of the New York Prohibition State Convention.

The Cotton Club was a famous jazz music night club located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City which operated from 1923 to 1940, most notably during America's Prohibition Era lasting from 1919 to 1933.

New Providence had two periods of high economic success during the American Civil War and during Prohibition, when it was a smuggling center.

He was reported as disapproving Prohibition agents who gained publicity, and Izzy and Moe's exploits had been well covered by the press, both tabloids and major papers such as the New York Times ; their successes were sensational.

In 1920, the United States outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages ( Prohibition ), creating the opportunity for an extremely lucrative illegal racket for the New York gangs.

He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books, most recently Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns / Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition.

His steadfast advocating of temperance led to his nomination on the Prohibition ticket to run again for Governor at the New York state election, 1874.

Between 1925 and 1927, Harlan served as Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, heading the district's Prohibition unit.

* J. Cocker and J. Malton Murray ( eds ) Temperance and Prohibition in New Zealand: the New Zealand Alliance for Abolition of the Liquor Trade: Resource: 2005: