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Rum Running Perplexes Big Cities As Prohibition Fights Graft
In Christmas 1928 coverage, cities like New York Chicago Philadelphia Detroit Pittsburgh Cincinnati and Kansas City face rising rum running and racketeering. Officials cite graft and violence while authorities plead for funding and border enforcement reforms, noting a $2 million monthly Canada to US liquor flow and a Detroit grand jury probe into a $3 million border patrol graft ring.
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New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Arnold Rothstein
George Remus
Carrie Nation
Maude Wilson
Today
Atlantic Seaboard
St. Louis
Atlanta
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Denver
New Orleans
Minneapolis Fort Worth
Toledo
Washington,d. C
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
James M. Doran
Willebrandt
United States
Canada
Ottawa
Cali
Border Patrol Service
John R. Watkins
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