Emory Buckner believed annual sales of bootleg liquor had reached $3.6 billion nationally by 1925.
By way of comparison, that was almost precisely the same as the entire federal budget that year—army, navy, and every other government function included.
Definitely big business. Is it any wonder that comedians would joke, “Remember before Prohibition? When you couldn’t buy a drink on Sunday.”
I may be provocative but I have never been called piquant
In Seattle, where the docks teemed with bootleggers unloading their boats into waiting trucks in the middle of the day, King County sheriff Claude G Bannick, whose office split fines fifty-fifty with local justices of the peace, worked out a mutually beneficial arrangement: violators were always fined, never jailed, so they could be set free to violate once again—to the profit of Bannick and the JP’s.
50/50 split seems quite fair.
I need to get motivated out of my torpor.
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