Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

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.

Rumors and more at the time indicated the Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship,, which disappeared at roughly the same time.

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

Facundito Bacardí was known to have invited US-Americans ( still subject to Prohibition ) to " Come to Cuba and bathe in Bacardi rum.

The quality of liquor available during Prohibition was much worse than previously.

On January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, ushering in Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.

Detroit was ( and still is ) the largest city bordering Canada, where alcohol remained legal during Prohibition.

Detroit became the center of a new industry known as rum-running, which was the illegal smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages or any other illegal drinks during Prohibition.

When Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the Twenty-first Amendment, the rum-running industry ended.

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

When Prohibition was repealed in Ontario in 1926, just 15 breweries remained and only Labatt retained its original management.

The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals was especially prominent within the building .< ref >” The United Methodist Building.

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.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union, founded in 1874, and the Prohibition Party were major players until the early 20th century, when the movement was taken over by the Anti-Saloon League.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

Legal and illegal home brewing was popular during Prohibition.

The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.

The organized Prohibition movement was dead nationwide, but survived for a while in a few southern and border states.

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Prohibition created a golden opportunity for organized crime syndicates to smuggle alcohol, and as a result the syndicates were able to gain considerable power in some major cities.

Smuggling revived in the 1920s during Prohibition, and drug smuggling became a major problem after 1970.

Prohibition had a major adverse impact on the city's economy.

During Prohibition, Remsen was a major player in the brewing, transporting and sale of illegal alcohol.

Another major factor for the timing was the end of Prohibition in the US at the end of 1933.

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.

Prohibition was a major political debate at the time.

Prohibition debates and referendums heated up politics in most states over a period of decades, as national prohibition was finally passed in 1919 ( and repealed in 1933 ), serving as a major issue between the wet Democrats and the dry GOP.

With the repeal of prohibition a major campaign issue, Palmer used his expertise as the Attorney General who first enforced Prohibition to promote a plan to expedite its repeal through state conventions rather than the state legislatures.

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.

One of the last major brewers of the city before Prohibition, was August Wagner, who immigrated from Bavaria in the late 19th century and worked as the brewmaster at the City Brewery before becoming president and general manager of the Gambrinus Brewing Company.

Appeasing them can often result in major reductions in liberty as they are swayed by edicts such as " Book BBQ ," " Prohibition ," " Birth Control Ban ," and " Inquisition.

With the onset of Prohibition, Kid Cann and his brothers were transformed from small time hoods into major figures in the American Mafia.

In general Prohibition had a devastating effect on commercial winemaking in the country, which only started to recover in the late 1960s and 1970s under major industry pioneers such as Ernest and Julio Gallo, Robert Mondavi and the world-class viticultural scientists at the University of California, Davis.

Also, according to the PBS documentary " Prohibition ," the term " bootlegging " was popularized when thousands of city dwellers would sell liquor from flasks they kept in their boot leg all across major cities.

Prohibition of alcoholic drinks was a major political issue, pitting the Anglophone Protestants against most ethnic groups.

Parties promoting only one narrow ideology have attracted marginal support at best, or have seen their issues adopted by one or both of the major parties in a big tent effort, effectively co-opting the issues and putting an end to the minor party ; this happened to the Prohibition Party and the Populist Party.

Successful invocations usually come in waves during times of substantial tumult, such as after the passage of Prohibition, when bars and taverns no longer had a reason for their leases, or during major wars, when demand for many consumer goods and services drops far below normal.

Temperance writers viewed the WCTU's program of compulsory temperance education as a major factor leading to the Eighteenth Amendment establishing National Prohibition.

Prohibition had been a major legacy of World War I and, with war in Europe, temperance leaders again hoped to take advantage of the national emergency that would occur if the United States were drawn into that conflagration.