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by Daniel Okrent

Casey, Josephine Weiss, 214

  Cask, 163–64

  Cass, Lewis, 9

  Cassatt, Gardner, 215

  Cassatt, Mary, 215

  Cassiday, George L., 325, 338

  Cather, Willa, 207, 214

  Catholic Prohibition League of America, 74

  Catholics, 105, 111, 148, 169, 186, 238, 245, 257, 262, 269, 305–9, 367

  Celler, Emanuel, 241

  Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), 186–87, 190, 191, 303

  Chamberlain, Neville, 367

  Chamberlin, Henry B., 272

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 69

  Chapman, John “Johnny Appleseed,” 8

  Cheney, Charles, 291

  Cherrington, Ernest H., 80–81, 240, 249, 252, 300–301, 348

  Chesterfield, Lord, 43

  Chicago, III., 17, 26, 37, 49, 125, 128, 141, 164, 257, 259, 272, 321–22

  Chicago Tribune, 73, 122, 123, 318–19, 339–40, 367

  Child, Lydia Maria, 48

  Choate, Joseph H., Jr., 352

  Christian Brothers, 184n

  Cristman, Franklin W., 289

  Chrysler, Walter P., 314

  Churchill, Clementine, 185–86

  Churchill, Randolph, 185–86

  Churchill, Winston, 172, 185–86, 367

  cider, 8, 47, 112, 120, 176

  Cincinnati Enquirer, 38, 300

  cirrhosis, 8n, 33, 222, 249

  Citizens’ Committee of 1000 for Law Enforcement, 269

  Civil War, U.S., 12, 30, 33, 42, 43, 54, 87, 88, 164, 240

  Clansman, The (Dixon), 43

  Clark, Champ, 70–71, 73

  Clark, Norman H., 284–85, 320

  Clifford, Sir Bede, 160

  Coast Guard, U.S., 144, 160, 163, 164, 166, 169, 228, 272, 277–81, 285

  Cobb, Ty, 260

  Coben, Stanley, 244

  Coca-Cola, 83, 215, 220–21, 323, 349, 352

  Cochran, Jackie, 139

  cocktails, 215, 222, 314, 337, 347, 349n, 373–74

  Codman, Julian, 301–2

  Coffee, Rudolph I., 188

  Colborne, Arthur Samuel, 84

  Coleman, Charles, 45

  Collier’s, 42, 45, 46, 217, 313, 323

  Collins, Morgan A., 257

  Columbia, 169

  Columbia University, 49, 51, 143, 293

  Columbus, Christopher, 12, 160, 174, 208

  Colvin, D. Leigh, 340

  Committee of Fifty, 49–50

  Committee of Public Information, 100–101

  Commonweal, 306

  Congress, U.S., 4, 23, 26, 42–43, 53, 60–62, 66, 81–82, 125, 144, 175, 191, 220, 230–41

  debate on Twenty-first Amendment in, 351–52

  reapportionment debate in, 237–41, 327–28

  Sixty-fifth, 91–95

  Sixty-sixth, 109–12

  see also House of Representatives, U.S.;

  Senate, U.S.

  Conn, Donald, 347

  Constitution, U.S., 1, 2–4, 33, 35, 87, 106, 172, 218, 285, 381–98

  Article I of, 235, 240, 381–86

  Article V of, 105, 390

  see also specific amendments

  Cook, O. S., 22–23

  Coolidge, Calvin, 142, 203, 227–29, 246, 255, 266, 278–79, 293, 305, 320

  Coors family, 358

  Cordano, Louis, 126

  Costello, Frank (Francesco Castiglia), 272n, 366, 369, 370

  Coughlin, “Bathhouse John,” 47

  Coulter, Stanley, 214

  Couzins, Phoebe, 65

  Cowley, Malcolm, 207, 334

  Cox, James M., 125, 306, 309

  Cox, William M., 353

  Crafts, Wilbur Fiske, 213

  Crane, Lloyd T., 259

  Crawford, Joan, 213

  Creel, George, 100–101

  criminal syndicates, 4, 164, 170, 259–60, 271–77, 302, 321–22, 345, 364–66, 369

  Crowley, D. O., 183

  Crusade, 14, 16, 17, 18, 132

  Cuba, 68, 152, 158, 169, 217, 218, 228

  Cunard Line, 218, 220

  Curley, James Michael, 208

  Curran, Henry H., 298–99

  Currier, Nathaniel, 19–20

  Curtis, Charles, 338

  Curzon, Lord, 172, 220

  Custer’s Last Fight, 29, 31–32, 74

  Customs Service, U.S., 122, 124–25, 152, 259, 344

  Daily Express (London), 218

  Dalitz, Moe, 272

  Dalrymple, Alfred V., 123–24, 353

  Daniels, Josephus, 58, 77, 117

  Darrow, Clarence, 55, 234, 260, 287, 292, 300, 329–30

  Darwinism, 48n, 55–56

  Daugherty, Harry, 129, 135, 140

  Davis, Dwight F., 364

  Davis, James E., 291

  Davis, Jefferson, 349

  Davis, John W., 59, 246, 306, 309

  Davis, Marni, 303

  Dearborn Independent, 190–91

  Debs, Eugene V., 75, 130

  Declaration of Independence, 9, 48

  Defender of the Faith (Levine), 55

  DeKing, Gerald, 319

  DeKing, Lillian, 318

  Delahanty, Ed, 96

  de Latour, Fernande, 181–82

  de Latour, Georges, 181–86, 258–59, 359

  de Latour, Hélène, 183

  delerium tremens (DTs), 11

  Democratic National Convention:

  of 1896, 56

  of 1920, 125–27

  of 1924, 243–46

  Democratic Party, 36, 40, 41, 43, 55, 56, 58, 188, 243–46, 304–9, 313, 326, 364

  political machines of, 47–48, 76, 81, 85, 89, 231, 241, 306, 307

  southern faction of, 76–77, 88, 89, 90

  Denison, Edward E., 245, 325, 338

  Depression, Great, 328, 331, 332, 348, 349, 362, 375

  Detroit, Mich., 2, 47, 107, 124, 128–29, 151–54, 158, 208, 212, 216, 241, 256–61, 320–21, 344

  Detroit Board of Commerce, 71, 73, 256–57, 259

  Detroit News, 107, 152–53, 213–14, 259, 260

  Deutsch, Gotthard, 192

  Dever, William E., 196, 257

  Dewar, Thomas Robert, Lord, 156, 170–71, 210

  Diamond, Jack “Legs,” 335

  Diary in America, A (Marryat), 7

  Diary of a Rum-runner, The (Moray), 163–64

  Diesel, Rudolf, 31

  Dinwiddie, Edwin, 59, 89

  distilleries, 7–8, 30n, 66, 83

  breweries vs., 33–34, 41, 44

  British, 155–57, 170–73, 210, 367–69

  home, 122, 128

  illegal, 2, 75, 108, 128, 204

  Jewish dominance of, 44–46, 148, 359

  package goods promoted by, 34

  portable, 122

  private, 8, 57

  Distillers Company Limited (DCL), 155–57, 171, 342, 367

  Distillers Corporation Limited, 156

  Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 43

  Does Prohibition Work? (Bruere), 258

  Domesticating Drink (Murdock), 19

  Doran, James M., 331, 355

  Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, 115

  Douglass, Frederick, 19, 118

  Dow, Neal, 11–12, 19

  Downes, Randolph C., 93

  Dreamland, 162

  Dred Scott decision, 56

  Dresser, Louise, 222

  Drowne, Kathleen, 211n

  Druggan, Terry, 274

  drugs, 9, 42, 76, 229n, 375

  Drunkard, The; or The Fallen Saved, 11

  drunk driving, 222, 283

  drunkenness, 10, 11, 15–16, 24, 27, 42, 43, 71, 118, 194, 206, 218–19, 221–24, 244, 248–49

  Dry Decade, The (Merz), 100

  DuBois, Fred T., 31

  Dubro, James, 343

  Duniway, Abigail Scott, 63–64

  du Pont, Alice, 350

  du Pont, Coleman, 298

  du Pont, Henry Algernon, 84

  du Pont, Irénée, 296, 297, 298, 332, 362

  du
Pont, Lammot, 296, 298, 304, 333

  du Pont, Louisa, 297

  du Pont, Pierre S., 233–34, 296–99, 301–2, 305, 332, 342, 350, 362–63

  DuPont Corporation, 202, 233, 296

  Durant, William C., 291, 318

  Dwyer, William Vincent “Big Bill,” 264, 271–72

  Edwards, Edward I., 287

  Edward VII, King of England, 56

  Eighteenth Amendment, ix, 3–4, 20, 38, 56, 57, 119, 125, 129, 140, 141, 164, 172, 230, 234, 240, 288

  advocacy of, 53, 57–62, 70–74, 76, 80, 81–82, 91–95

  attacks on, 120–21, 219, 293, 329–30

  legislation outlining procedures of, 57, 106, 108, 109–14

  ratification of, 58, 66, 82, 97, 100, 104–6, 131, 144

  see also Prohibition;

  Volstead Act of 1919

  Einstein, Albert, 3

  Einstein, Isidore “Izzy,” 136, 189, 243, 258, 262–63, 302, 355–56

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 368

  elections, U.S., 55, 56, 66

  of 1916, 76, 78, 81–82

  of 1920, 125–27, 229, 235, 243, 309

  of 1922, 229, 234, 356

  of 1924, 229, 243–46, 292, 304

  of 1926, 289, 294, 303

  of 1928, 302–9, 316, 317, 323, 326, 356

  of 1932, 58, 351

  Electoral College, 19, 68, 308, 327

  Eliot, Charles W., 50

  Eliot, George, 136

  Engelmann, Larry, 259

  English, H. D. W., 48 Era of Excess (Sinclair), 14

  Erickson, August, 27

  Erwin, James L., 64

  Europa, 366

  Evans, Hiram M., 244, 246

  Evarts, William M., 78

  Evening Standard (London), 171

  Excise Act of 1791, 53–54

  Export Act of 1930 (Canadian), 342, 343, 344

  Faith, Nicholas, 147n

  Faulkner, William, 205, 374

  Faunce, W. H. P., 214

  Fay, Charles W., 183

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 353, 368–69, 370

  Federal Writers’ Project, 153

  Feigenspan, Christian, 41, 103

  Felder, Thomas B., 231

  Feldman, Herman, 248

  Fellows, Samuel R., 49

  Ferguson, James E. “Pa,” 66

  Fess, Simeon D., 229

  Fifteenth Amendment, 43, 90, 125

  Financial Post, 153

  Firestone, Harvey, 351

  Fish, Gladys Ardelle, 301

  Fish, Stuyvesant, 233, 318

  Fisher, Charles T., 260

  Fisher, Fred J., 260

  Fisher, Irving, 98–99, 247–49, 330

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 193, 205, 214

  Five Families, The (Raab), 345

  Flexner, Stuart Berg, 276

  Ford, Henry, 133, 190–91, 231, 291, 304n, 322, 357

  Fortune, 156, 157, 158, 214–15, 359

  Fox, Hugh, 33, 41, 51

  France, 75, 100, 167, 169, 175, 203, 343

  Frank, Leo, 86

  Frankfurter, Felix, 113, 253, 261

  Franklin, Benjamin, 7

  Franklin, Leo M., 190–91

  Frelinghuysen, Joseph, 130

  Frick, Henry Clay, 113, 134, 200

  Frost, Stanley, 244

  Fruit Industries Limited, 335, 336–37, 346–47

  Fryant, Richard, 285

  Gallo, Ernest, 177

  Gallo, Joseph, 177

  Gallo, Julio, 177

  Garbo, Greta, 215

  Gardner, Benjamin, 187–88

  Garner, John Nance, 113–14

  Garrett, Daniel E., 93

  Garrett, Finis, 240

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 9, 19

  Geddes, Sir Auckland, 171

  General Motors, 291, 296, 298, 305, 306, 332, 351, 362

  George, Ella, 144–45

  George Washington, 219, 336

  German-American Alliance (GAA), 85–86, 94–95, 102

  German-Americans, 85–87, 100–103, 256

  see also anti-German hysteria;

  breweries, German-American

  Germany, Imperial, 26, 31, 74, 78, 85, 87, 100, 103

  Germany, Weimar, 206

  Giancana, Sam, 369

  Gibbs, Wolcott, 249

  Gies, George H., 84

  Gilmore, Thomas, 41, 98

  gin, 4, 45–46, 57, 155, 176, 214–15

  Ginn & Company, 23

  Glasgow Evening News, 170

  Glass, Carter, 127, 325–26

  Glover, R. H., 148–49

  Godly Hero, A (Kazin), 55

  Golden, Harry, 326n

  Golder, Benjamin, 203

  Goldwater, Baron M., 120

  Goldwater, Barry, 120

  Gompers, Samuel, 239

  Gonzaulles, M. T., 136

  Good Spirits: The Making of a Businessman (Bronfman), 150–51

  Gordon, Anna A., 18, 37, 80, 117

  Gordon, Ernest, 271

  Gough, John Bartholomew, 10

  Gould, Jay, 36

  Graham, George S., 235

  Grant, Madison, 236

  Gray, James H., 148

  Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 193, 205

  Great Illusion, The (Asbury), 89, 189

  Green, Ned M., 258

  Greene, Frank L., 271

  Griffith, D. W., 43

  Grimes, William, 215

  Grodzinski, Zvi, 188

  Grove, Leo J., 123

  Groves brothers, 188

  Guinan, Texas, 265, 337

  Gundy, W. E., 152

  Gup, Samuel, 188–89

  Guthrie, William D., 121

  Gutierrez, C. O., 196

  Haller, Mark H., 274, 366

  Hamilton, Alexander, 53–54, 278

  Hamilton, Jean, 223

  Hanna, Edward J., 183, 184

  Hanna, Mark, 40, 81

  Harding, Florence, 129–30, 227

  Harding, Warren G., 93–94, 125, 243, 255

  administration of, 129–35, 137, 139, 140, 142, 219–20, 227, 233, 320

  Harding, William L., 101

  Harkness, Edward S., 296

  Harlan, John Marshall, 264

  Harlow, Jean, 273, 356

  Harreld, John W., 135

  Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, 76

  Hartwell, Broderick, 209, 210

 

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