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Edwards, Edward, 66
Eighteenth Amendment, 3, 51, 54–56, 60; enforcement of, 67, 74, 78, 89; repeal of, 91–92, 97–99, 103–104
Einstein, Izzy, 82
elections: colonial, 6, 9; of 1846, 16; in 1850s, 21; in 1880s, 29, 31; of 1892, 47; of 1911, 50–51; of 1914, 44, 51; of 1916, 48, 52; of 1918, 57; of 1920, 72; of 1922, 72; of 1924, 73; of 1926, 84; of 1928, 86; of 1930, 95–96 of 1932, 97–98
Episcopalians, 13, 16, 55
Farley, James, 98, 99
Federal Alcohol Control Administration, 101, 107
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 59, 70
fetal alcohol syndrome, 112
Finland, 115
Finn, Mickey, 37
flappers, 77, 82–83
Florida, 66–67, 103
food shortages, 53, 57
Ford, Henry, 32
Fosdick, Raymond, 104
France, 51, 54
free lunch, 37
fur trade, alcohol in, 8
gambling, 9, 28, 33, 37, 69–70
gangsters, 65, 69–71, 82
Gatsby, Jay, 81
Georgia, 31, 44, 46, 61–62
German-American Alliance, 3, 49–50, 52, 58
German Americans, 21–22, 33, 62–63; as brewers, 24, 32–33, 36
Germany, 3, 29, 51–52
Gothenburg system, 30–31, 115
Gough, John B., 14
Great Depression, 90, 93, 96–98, 101
Guinan, Texas, 78–79
Gunsmoke, 34
Hall, Harrison, 7
Hancock, John, 7
Harding, Warren, 72, 93
Harlem, 4, 77–78, 92
Harrison Act, 47, 60
health, 9, 14, 48, 112
Hearst, William Randolph, 56, 97
Hickok, Wild Bill, 34
Hillsboro, OH, 26
Hiram Walker distillery, 67
Hobson, Richmond, 38, 45, 48
Hoover, Herbert, 4, 82, 84, 86–88; as president, 88–90, 94, 97, 99
Hoover, J. Edgar, 59
hotels, 45, 75, 99
Hughes, Langston, 78
Humphrey, Heman, 19
Hunt, Mary, 28
Illinois, 22, 43, 44, 63, 104
immigrants: European, 2, 7, 21–22, 25; recent, 113–114; urban, 16, 22, 31–32, 84–86
income tax, 47–48; and Al Capone, 70–71; civil war, 24
Independent Order of Good Templars (IOGT), 20, 32
India, 29
Indiana, 21–22
Indians. SeeNative Americans
Industrial Revolution, 16–17
Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors, An, 9
Iowa, 21–22, 62–63, 98, 104
Ireland, John, 32
Irish Americans, 16, 21–22, 31–32, 44, 62–63; and saloons, 22, 38
Irlbeck, Joe, 62, 104
Italian Americans, 65, 91–92
jazz, 78
Jefferson, Thomas, 7
Jews, 13, 16, 67–68, 79, 81
Jones, Wesley, 72, 88, 98
Kansas, 31, 38–39, 44, 46
Keeley Institute, 35
Knights of Labor, 33
Know-Nothings, 23
Ku Klux Klan, 63, 73, 86
labor unions, 32–33, 65, 94, 99; in alcohol industry, 33, 53, 107
La Guardia, Fiorello, 91–92, 96
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act, 53
Lewis, Dio, 26
Lewis, Sinclair, 81
Lincoln, Abraham, 24
liquor licenses, 20–21, 105, 107; high fees for, 30; state stores instead of, 106–109
Los Angeles, 42, 44, 87
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, 36
Lyman, Huntington, 12
Macon, GA, 46
Madison, WI, 102
Maine, 2, 21, 31
Maryland, 18, 22, 68, 72, 87
Massachusetts, 7, 18, 21, 68; Irish immigrants in, 22, 44, 86, 87
Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, 11
Mathew, Theobald, 16
Matthews, Mark, 37
McAdoo, William, 73
McCoy, Bill, 68–69
medicine, 8–9, 11, 16, 59, 74–75
Menlo Park, NJ, 32
Methodist Board of Temperance, 81, 95
Methodists, 12, 21, 28, 30, 39; and prohibition, 42, 84, 95, 100
Mexican Americans, 50, 87; alcohol consumption of, 114
Mexico, 66, 114
Michigan, 21, 32, 101
middle class, 16, 20, 80–81, 95; Irish, 31–32; women protesters from, 26–27
Midwest: Canadian liquor in, 67; Germans in, 22; moonshine in, 62–63
Milwaukee, 22, 36, 76
Moerlein brewery, 36, 103
Montana, 87, 103
moonshine, 61–64, 69, 80
Morgan, J. P., 55
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), 113
Muslim Americans, 114
Naltrexane, 111
NASCAR, 64
Nation, Carry, 38–39
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), 111–112, 115
National Recovery Act (NRA), 107–108
Native Americans, 6, 8, 34–35, 114
Ness, Eliot, 82
New England, 6–7, 11, 21, 31
New Jersey, 32, 51, 69
New York City, 3–4, 16–17, 22, 43–45, 101, 109; prohibition in, 60–61, 66–69, 75–82, 85–87; saloons in, 33, 36, 38
New York State, 14–16, 21, 26, 43–45, 114; prohibition in, 72–74, 84–87; repeal in, 93–94, 101
newspapers, 49–52, 70, 81–82, 104
nightclubs, 77–79
North Carolina, 31, 44, 101
North Dakota, 31, 67
Norway, 115
Ohio, 23, 26–27, 37, 68
Olmstead, Roy, 71–72, 74, 82
opium, 9, 28, 60
Pabst brewery, 36, 102–103
Parallel between Intemperance and the Slave-Trade, 19
Paterson, NJ, 51
Pennsylvania, 7, 17, 21–22, 38, 65, 68
Philadelphia, 17, 22, 38, 68
Philipp, Emanuel, 64–65
Pittsburgh, 65, 68
police, 23–24, 69–70, 75–76, 82
poverty, 9, 43
Powderly, Terence, 32–33
Progressives, 42–43, 48, 73, 81
prohibition, 1–3, 31, 35, 101, 109; early, 18, 20–21, 23–24; enforcement, 82, 84, 87–89, 93–94; local option, 16, 20–21, 30–31, 35, 40–43, 45; national, 55–58, 60, 69–73, 75; state, 21, 40–44, 49–52, 98
Prohibition Bureau, 68, 74, 78, 81–82, 87; corruption in, 59, 62–64, 72–73, 89, 93; ends, 103
Prohibition Party, 29–30, 41
prostitution, 9, 28, 33, 37, 69–70, 77
Protestants, 11–12, 22, 39, 45, 87; evangelical, 12–23, 28, 30, 41–42, 51
Pullman, George, 32
race, 43–44, 77–78, 94
Raskob, John, 85, 91
Remus, George, 71, 81
rent parties, 4, 78
repeal, 4, 91–92, 97, 100, 103–104
Republican Party, 23, 29, 38, 41; during prohibition, 84, 88, 91–94
restaurants, 61, 75, 79
Rhode Island, 7, 21, 86
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The, 34
Rochester, NY, 14–15
Rockefeller, John D., 32
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 5, 92, 104–107
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 4, 96–97
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 4–5, 86, 96–99, 102, 104–105
rum, 6–7, 66–67
Rum Row, 68–69
Rush, Benjamin, 8–10; thermometer of, 10
Russia, 1, 53, 115
Sabin, Pauline, 4, 93–97
saloons, 4, 22, 36–38, 104; Central City, CO, 34; Madison, WI, 102; opposition to, 26–27, 32–34, 38–40, 51; prohibition and, 61, 75, 81, 89
San Francisco, 3, 43, 87
Schlitz brewery, 36,
102, 111
Scientific Temperance, 28–29
Seagram’s distillery, 68
Seattle, 71–72, 74, 103
sexuality, 9, 43–44, 77, 82
Sheppard, Morris, 51, 54, 57, 92, 99
Six Sermons on Intemperance, 14
slavery, 7–8, 17–19
Smith, Al, 4, 72–73, 95–96, 101–102; as presidential nominee, 84–86, 91
Sons of Temperance, 20, 32
South, 17, 22, 29–31; and prohibition, 42–44, 46, 64, 86, 96–97
speakeasies, 4, 64, 81, 88, 103; Chicago, 69–70; Milwaukee, 76; New York, 75–79
statistics, US alcohol consumption, 115
St. John, John, 29
St. Louis, 22, 36, 44, 50–52, 64–65
St. Paul, MN, 32, 54, 57
St. Valentine’s Day massacre, 70, 88
Sunday, Billy, 42–43, 73
Sweden, 1, 30, 115
Taft, William Howard, 74
Tammany Hall, 38, 73, 85, 91, 96
Tappan, John, 13
taxation, 47, 82, 85–87, 101; alcohol, 5, 7–8, 20–21, 24, 47–48, 105–108; after repeal, 91, 93, 97
teetotal pledge, 13
temperance movement, 11–19, 24, 28–32, 41, 111
Templeton Rye, 62, 64
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, 14
Texas, 36, 45, 50–52, 66
three-tier system, 105–108
tied houses, 5, 36–37, 51, 69–70, 104, 107–108
Tijuana, 66
Tillman, Benjamin, 31
Topeka, KS, 38, 46
Toward Liquor Control, 104–107
Twenty-First Amendment, 5, 56, 99–101, 103–104
United Repeal Council, 99
United States Brewers’ Association, 24, 50
US Coast Guard, 59, 67–68
US Constitution, 40, 43, 81; Eighteenth Amendment to, 54–56; Twenty-First Amendment to, 99–101
US State Department, 45, 67
US Supreme Court, 47, 74, 108
Virginia, 6, 31, 87
Volstead, Andrew, 57, 59
Volstead Act, 60, 64, 75, 87–89, 94; proposed modification of, 85, 92, 98, 101–103; repeal of, 97, 103
Walgreen, Charles, 74
Washington, George, 6
Washington, DC, 15, 68
Washington State, 44, 100, 103–104
Washingtonian Society, 18, 20, 111
Webb-Kenyon Act, 46–47
Weill, Kurt, 34
West, 33–34, 44, 67, 101, 103–104
West Indies, 6, 66–67
Wheeler, Wayne, 3, 42–43, 46–48, 52, 57, 84; and Eighteenth Amendment, 54–55; and Prohibition Bureau, 59, 66, 72
whiskey, 7–9, 11, 21, 24–25
Whiskey Rebellion, 7
Wickersham Commission, 88–89
Willard, Frances, 3, 28, 33, 36
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 82, 84
Williamson County, IL, 63
Wilson, Clarence True, 95, 100
Wilson, Woodrow, 45, 47–48, 53, 59, 73
wine, 13, 48, 54, 59, 84, 89, 92, 114; sacramental, 55, 59; regulation of, 106–109
winemakers, 65, 79, 110
wiretaps, 74, 82
Wisconsin, 21–22, 36, 76, 87, 102
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 3, 27–35, 40–41, 84, 94–96
women, 4, 8–9, 17, 37, 62, 65, 112–113; and prohibition, 76–77, 80–83; for repeal, 94–97, 99, 101; and temperance, 16, 20, 26–29, 51
Women’s Crusade, 26–27
Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR), 4, 94–97, 99, 101, 105
women’s suffrage, 42, 96
Woods, Robert, 40, 43
working class, 37, 44, 65, 81; beer and the, 64–65, 99
world, alcohol in the, 6–7, 29, 111, 115
World War I, 3, 51–54, 56–57, 93
World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WWCTU), 29
Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, 111
Yale Club, 55, 81
youths, 81–83, 94