Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (43 page)

conservatives,
48

Consolidated Exporters’ Company,
141–42

Coolidge, Calvin,
3
,
142
,
169
,
190
,
223
,
224
,
238

Cordeaux, Sir Harry,
131

Costello, Frank,
87
,
172
,
240

Coughlin, “Bathhouse John,”
176–77

Country Club,
88

Cox, George “Boss,”
107

Cox, Ross,
17

crime:

organized, Americans’ tolerance of,
239–41

relation to Prohibition,
83
,
148
criminals:

gangs,
177–78
,
186
,
188
,
192

police protection of,
144
,
173
,
178
,
183
,
240–41

political protection of,
162–63

Crowe, Dorsey R.,
189

Crusaders (lobby),
223

Customs Bureau,
145
,
164

Dabney, Virginius,
230

Daily News
(New York),
78–79

Darrow, Clarence,
95
,
183
,
213–14
,
224

Dater, George,
100

Daugherty, Harry Micajah,
60–61
,
108–9
,
111
,
116–19
,
122–24
,
153
,
159–60
,
161
,
163
,
195
,
198

Davis, John,
113

Davis, JohnW.,
171

DEA,
242

Dealey, Edwin,
116

Death Valley Farm,
100–103
,
125–26

Delaware,
30

de Marmon, Dr. Paluel,
27

Democratic party,
57
,
73
,
169–71
,
225–26

de Mun, Count Albert,
158–59

denatured alcohol,
163
,
222

Denby, Edwin,
71

Deneen, Charles S.,
191

Denison, Everett,
164

Denny, Arthur,
48

Depression,
234
,
237

Detroit (Michigan),
151
,
192

Dever, William E.,
185
,
189

diplomatic immunity,
156–57

Diplomatic Service,
130

distillers,
60
,
68
,
70
,
80
,
235

during Prohibition, stock and production of,
96

Dobyns, Fletcher,
176

Dodge, Franklin N.,
2
,
196–98
,
218

Dodge, William Copeland,
241

Doheny, Edward,
116–17

Doherty, Jim,
188

Doran, James M.,
224
,
233

Dow, Neal,
28–29
,
31

Draper, Arthur,
113

drinking:

evils of,
21

history of, in America,
7–19

liquor vs. beer,
16

literary treatments of,
26

medical evidence against,
22

popular in Prohibition era,
89

regulation of,
12–13

as release for desperate souls,
26

sinfulness of,
21

spontaneous combustion myth,
22–23
,
25

Drucci, Vincent “The Schemer,”
189

drunkenness:

vs. moderate drinking,
13

prison and fines for,
27–28

dry cities, counties, etc. (local option),
28
,
51
,
55
,
57–58

Duffy, Tom,
188

Du Pont, Pierre,
233

Dwyer, William “Big Bill,”
87
,
172

East Coast,
135

Edison, Thomas,
149

Edwards, Edward I.,
84

Edwards, Rev. Justin,
21
,
23–27

Eighteenth Amendment:

final repeal of,
235–36

lobbying for,
4
,
58–61

passage of,
77–80

repeal movement,
163–64
,
169
,
233–34

See also
Volstead Act Einstein, Izzy,
154–57
,
170

El Fay Club,
88

Eller, Morris,
184

Elston, Robert,
201–18

Enemy Appropriations Act,
118

England,
158

Europe:

attitudes toward liquor,
10

temperance movement in,
45–46

Everett (Washington),
51

Everleigh, Minna,
176

Fall, Albert,
116–17
,
119

family morality,
51

Farley, John H.,
56

farmers,
51
,
235

Fay, Larry,
87
,
173

FBI,
136
,
175

federal judiciary,
166

Felder, Thomas,
114

Felix, Elizabeth,
213

Fielding, Henry,
9–10

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
91
,
99

The Great Gatsby,
91,
99

flags of convenience,
132

Fleischmann Distilleries,
96

Flora, Robert E.,
125–26

Foraker, Joe,
107

Forbes, Col. “Charlie,”
115–16

Ford, Henry,
59
,
149–50

Forel, August,
59

France,
158–59

Franchere, Gabriel,
17

Frankel, Max,
5

Franklin, Benjamin,
14

Friedman, Elizabeth Smith,
142

Friends of Temperance,
31

Fruit Industries, Inc.,
231–32

Fulton Fish Market (New York City),
240–41

funerals, gangsters’,
177–78

gang warfare,
177–78
,
188
,
192

number of casualties,
177
,
186

Gehrum, George,
100
,
126

Genna brothers,
173
,
187–88

Georges de Latour winery,
86–87

Georgia,
13

German-American Alliance,
68–70
,
82
,
182

Germans,
47
,
49
,
52
,
63–72
,
182

hostility toward,
60
,
71
,
223

Gerstacker, Friedrich,
64

gin,
9
,
12