Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (24 page)

Wayne Wheeler, power broker and Anti-Saloon League boss. (
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President and Mrs. Warren Harding. (
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Andrew Volstead (1869–1947), Minnesota congressman, author of the Volstead Act, which brought Prohibition into being in 1920. (National Archives)

Warren Harding and members of his cabinet. Seated, left to right: John Weeks, Andrew Mellon, Charles Evans Hughes, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Edwin Denby. Standing, left to right: Albert Fall, Will Hays, Harry Daugherty, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover, and John Davis. Daugherty was bootlegger George Remus’s man in the Harding administration.
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Jess Smith, Harding intimate and a close friend of Attorney General Harry Daugherty, was Daugherty’s bagman and effective number two in the Justice Department.
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A St. Louis wine cellar chockablock with vintage French wines being inspected by a Prohibition official before it was sealed off (1920). (National Archives)

A Prohibition Bureau agent smashes seized liquor (1923). (
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A bootlegger’s car, which crashed during a police chase in Washington, D.C. (1926). (
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FBI agent with captured plane and getaway car near the Mexican border (1928). (
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Prohibition Bureau agents raid a speakeasy in Washington, D.C., at 922 Pennsylvania Avenue (1923).(
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Special garter and miniature flask for ladies. (
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New York’s largest illegal beer brewery being dismantled (1930).(national archives)