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In 1921, shortly after entering the bootlegging trade, Sonderleiter was arrested for violating the Volstead Act. [2]: 110 Upon his release, he began purchasing large quantities of illegal liquor and publicized himself, going so far as to distribute business cards and brochures with information on where people could purchase alcohol from him.
In 1925, Tex Rickard convinced Dwyer to obtain a National Hockey League expansion franchise to play in Madison Square Garden, and he named them the New York Americans, paying $75,000. [2] With a fortune made in Prohibition bootlegging, Dwyer handed out lucrative contracts, including a three-year deal to Billy Burch rumored to be worth $25,000.
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Although much of Cooper’s fortune was made through bootlegging, he was also one of the leading innovators of farming in southern Ontario. In 1918, Cooper bought 105 acres (0.42 km 2) of farmland near Belle River. He initiated the widespread practice of deep ploughing and tilled the acreage so that spring crops could be ready approximately two ...
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Born in the Cumberland mill village of Valley Falls, Walsh was a clerk in a Pawtucket hardware store before he entered bootlegging in 1920. First driving alcohol shipments for other local bootleggers, by the mid-1920s, he had established a formidable bootlegging operation which included planes, automobiles and a fleet of boats, one of them the legendary rum-runner called the "Black Duck ...
The love story between John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, was far from perfect and was tragically cut short in 1963 by a sniper’s bullet. The last thing JFK said to Jackie before he died Skip ...
Kennedy fields a question at a press conference on April 14, 1961, three days before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and just three months into Kennedy's presidency. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...