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Prohibition: The Noble Experiment That Failed

April 14, 2020Jean

Source: Northwest Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2019

Alcohol, Celebrities, Gambling, General, Guns, Liquor, Liquor Traffic, People, police, Rockford Police Dept. Al CApone, Arthur Bassett, bootleggers, Frances Willard, George "Bugs" Moran, hooch, Joe Giovingo, Jon McGinty, Kathi Kresol, Louis J. Milani, Mabel Walker Willebrant, Noble Experiment, Northwest Quarterly, Paul Giovingo, Police Detective Folke Bengston, Police Detective Roy Johnson, Temperance, Tom Perra, Volstead act, WCTU, Women's Christian Temperence Union

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