Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (45 page)

Mannington, Howard,
112
,
114

Marcus, “John Jew,”
100

Marsh, Rev. John,
31

Hannah Hawkins,
31

Marxists,
3–4

Massachusetts,
12
,
13
,
28
,
30
,
31

Mather, Increase,
13

Mather, Cotton,
13

Matthews, Rev. Mark,
22

McAdoo, William Gibbs,
170

McCallum, Helen,
230–31

McCoy, Bill,
136–37
,
139
,
221

McGhee, Jimmy,
140–41

McKinley, William,
43

McLean, John R.,
115

McLean, Ned,
115

McSorley’s saloon,
88

McSwiggin, William,
188

McTroy, Cary,
231

medicinal liquor,
84–85
,
96–97
,
100
,
133

Medicine Lodge (Kansas),
41–42

Mellin, Bill,
168–69

Mellon, Andrew,
113
,
224

Mencken, H. L.,
73–74
,
107
,
238–39

methanol,
222

Methodists,
13

Mexico,
130

Michigan,
30
,
165

middle class,
46

Midwest,
37
,
172

Milwaukee (Wisconsin),
64
,
236

Minnesota,
30
,
77

Mississippi,
80

Mitchell, William D.,
231

moderation,
13
,
38–39

Moderation League,
223

Moerlein, Kristian,
65

Moét Chandon,
130

Mondi, Jimmy,
181
,
190

Montana,
166

moonshine,
222

Moore, Harry,
236

Moran, “Bugs,”
192

Morgan, Burt,
104
,
124–26

Morgan, Harry,
48

Morgenthau, Henry,
226

Mortimer, Elias and Kate,
115

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,
5
,
242

Mulhouse
(ship),
135

Mumaugh, Dr. Shelby,
217

Murphy, “Big Tim,”
189

Napa Valley (California),
85–87

Nation, Carry,
40–44

Nation, David,
41

Nebraska,
30
,
80

Nevada,
166

Neville, W. L.,
217

New Bedford (Massachusetts)
139–40

Newell, William,
50–51

New England,
37

New Hampshire,
30

New Jersey,
84
,
158
,
166
,
167
,
236
,
240

New York (city),
43
,
63
,
81–82
,
87–88
,
154–57
,
167
,
169
,
173
,
176
,
178
,
221
,
240
–41

New York (state),
30
,
165
,
166
,
169
,
172
,
228
,
240
New York Times,
66

nightclubs,
88

Norfolk (Virginia),
169

Northwest (region of the U.S.),
135

Norwegian smugglers,
135

Nott, Dr. Eliphalet,
22–23

O’Banion, Dan,
186–87

Oberlin College,
53–54
,
225

O’Donnell, Myles,
188

Ohio,
36–38
,
54–61
,
108

“Ohio gang,”
106

Old Lexington Club,
96

Olmstead, Roy,
137–39
,
221

Olvany, George,
226

opium,
16

Oppenheimer, Beston S.,
206

Oregon,
30
,
48

organized crime,
239–41

Ormsby-Gore, W. G. A.,
131

Orr, Bill,
114

Pacific Fur Company,
17

Palm, Fred,
165

Palmer, A. Mitchell,
69

Pasley, Fred D.,
185

Pattison, John M.,
57

Pennsylvania,
12
,
30

Philadelphia (Pennyslvania),
43

Philanthropist, The,
18–19

Phillips, Carrie,
109
,
112

pirates,
135

pledges,
33

police, collusion with criminals,
144
,
173
,
178
,
183
,
240–41

political corruption,
45
,
58
,
91
,
102
,
105–19
,
152–54
,
158
,
175–93

politicians:

Americans’ distrust of,
239–41

bosses,
176

campaigns,
55
,
56

and criminals,
162–63

liquor served and drunk by,
114–15
,
164

politically “dry” but privately “wet,”
56–57
,
108
,
164

“wet” (anti-Prohibition),
171
,
226–28

port,
12

Porter, Col. Daniel,
84

Portland (Maine),
28–29

Presbyterian Church,
38

priests,
86–87

Prohibition:

benefits of,
147–60

constitutional amendment first proposed,
58–61

damaging effects of,
91
,
238–43

failure of,
88–89

and foreign policy,
130–31

nationwide, campaign for,
39–40

as political issue,
45–46
,
162
,
234

supporters of,
149–50
,
233

as tool of social control,
3–4
,
51–52

total, first advocacy of,
28

worldwide,
74–75

See also Temperance movement

Prohibition Bureau,
83–89
,
136
,

144,
151
,
166–67
,
169
,
242

agents killed in line of duty,
152

corruption in,
152–54

prevented from doing its job,
159

Prohibition era:

desire to forget,
238

in novels and films,
91

as watershed in American history,
3