Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (47 page)

religious motive of,
14
,
21–22

social class concerns in,
46–47

See also Prohibition

Temperance Recorder,
21

Temperance societies (voluntary),
18–19
,
30–31

Terkel, Studs,
237

Hard Times
,
237

territorial waters,
132
,
139

third party movements,
48

Thompson, “Big Bill,”
112
,
173
,
176
,
177
,
179–78
,
179–93

Thompson, Elizabeth “Mother,”
36–38

Times (Seattle),
149

Times Square,
88

Times-Star (Cincinnati),
66

tobacco,
41

Tom August (ship),
134–35

Torrio, Johnny,
95
,
173
,
177
,
184
,
185–86

travelers, drinking abroad by,
158–59

Treasury Department,
83

Tresca, Carlo,
173

Tribune (Chicago),
181
,
192–93

Truesdale, Harry,
207–13

Twenty-One (club),
87
,
232

United States:

political system, flaws of,
162–63

smugglers’ role in history of,
129

See also
America

United States Brewers Association,
47–48
,
68–70

“untouchables,”
124

Untouchables, The (TV series),
175

urbanization,
49

Utah,
236

van Pelt, John Calvin,
37

Vermont,
30

Versailles Peace Conference,
74

Veterans Administration,
115–16

vineyards,
85–87

visitation bands,
36–38

Volstead, Andrew J.,
77
,
159
,
171

Volstead Act,
77–80

damaging effects of,
3
,
80
,
221–23

enforcement of,
83–84
,
154–60
,
166
,
171–72
,
195

flouting of,
84–89

last night before going into effect,
81–82

penalties for violation,
78
,
165
,
166

political resistance to,
158

reason for failure,
79

See also Eighteenth Amendment

Vorbau, W. H.,218

Votaw, Carolyn,
115

voting fraud,
176
,
181

Walker, Jimmy,
171
,
176

Walnut, T. Henry,
153

War on Drugs,
5
,
131
,
133
,
142
,
167
,
242

Washington (D.C.),
169

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

—W
ILL
R
OGERS

PROHIBITION