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by Daniel Okrent


  Harvard University, 2, 9, 25, 49, 50, 113, 210, 253, 364, 369–70

  Hay, John, 289

  Hayes, Lucy, 78

  Haynes, Roy A., 131–34, 140, 141, 144, 153, 170, 201, 202, 236, 245, 248, 251, 264, 325, 331

  Hazlitt, William, 206

  Healthy Body, A (Stowell), 22

  Hearst, William Randolph, 88, 228, 317–18, 326

  Hearst newspapers, 41, 85, 335

  Heflin, James Thomas “Cotton Tom,” 90, 101, 213, 238, 327

  Heflin, Thomas, Jr., 213–14

  Hemingway, Ernest, 205–6

  Hennessy, Charlotte, 120

  Hepburn, Carroll, 213

  Herd, Thomas, 156–57

  Herrick, Myron T., 40

  Hersey, Ira G., 240–41

  Hervey, William R., 136

  Herzog (Bellow), 150n

  Higham, John, 26, 237

  Hill, John Philip, 230, 232

  Hinton, Harold B., 56

  Hiram Walker Distillery, 152, 259

  Hitler, Adolf, 359

  Hobart, George S., 250

  Hobson, Grizelda Hull, 67, 80

  Hobson, Richmond P., 5, 53, 245, 348, 362n

  congressional career of, 68–74, 80

  Prohibition promoted by, 57, 61, 67–74, 79–81, 87–89, 92, 104–5, 180, 240, 252

  Hobson Amendment, 70–74, 76, 80, 81, 92–93, 107–8, 180

  Hoch, Homer, 237–38

  Hoff, Max “Boo Boo,” 202–4, 272, 322

  Hoke, Lily, 43, 44

  Hoke, Robert F., 43

  Holiday, Billie, 375

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 281, 282n

  Hoover, Herbert, 94, 99–100, 110, 142, 304–8, 341

  administration of, 315–16, 320–21, 327–28, 331, 339, 344–46, 349

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 139, 228, 285, 345, 353

  Horner, Charles F., 79

  House of Representatives, U.S., 5, 42–43, 53, 56, 57, 58, 61, 68–74, 90, 108–9, 230, 232, 237–41, 263, 268, 311

  Judiciary Committee of, 70, 71, 91, 109, 111, 235

  Prohibition Amendment debated in, 70–74, 76, 80, 81, 91–95, 107–8, 180

  “How Dry I Am,” 127, 208

  How the Other Half Lives (Riis), 28

  Hughes, Charles Evans, 172, 297

  Hull, Cordell, 56, 57–58, 304, 370

  Hunsberger, Ambrose, 197

  Hunt, Mary Hanchett, 20–23, 49, 80

  Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill), 196

  Igglesden, Sir Charles, 222

  Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, 238–39

  Income tax. See Taxation, income

  In Defense of Yesterday (Keller), 232

  Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 41–42, 76

  initiative and referendum movement, 51, 60

  Internal Revenue Service. See Bureau of Internal Revenue

  Iraq War, 101

  Irish-Americans, 12, 26, 46–47, 76–77, 86, 105, 258, 305, 366–71

  Irish whiskey, 168, 369

  Iron County, Mich., 122–24

  Irwin, Will, 45–46

  Italian-Americans, 26, 86, 123, 126, 175, 177, 237n, 243, 258, 305, 325

  Ives, James Merritt, 19–20

  Izor, Pauline, 223

  Jack Daniel’s distillery, 198–99, 374

  Jackson, Andrew, 9

  James, Henry, 253

  Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 9

  Jeffries, Edward J., 260

  Jews, 239, 245, 262–63

  distilleries dominated by, 44–46, 148, 359

  see also anti-Semitism;

  Judaism

  Jim Crow laws, 44, 90

  “John Barleycorn,” 2, 126

  John Dwight, 277–78

  John I, King of England, 113

  Johnson, Albert, 239

  Johnson, Hiram, 51

  Johnson, Robert Wood, II, 163

  Johnson & Johnson, 163

  Johnston, Alva, 322, 367

  Jones, Bob, 231, 246, 305–6

  Jones, Idwal, 177

  Jones, Wesley L., 57, 79, 285, 303, 317, 319, 338, 351

  Jones Law, 317–18, 319, 324, 325, 338

  Jordan, David Starr, 48, 86

  Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, 150–51, 157, 341, 343, 359–60, 376

  Joy, Henry B., 84–85

  Joyce, James, 207n

  Judaism, 186–92

  illegal wine sales and, 187–92

  Reform vs. Orthodox tensions in, 186–89, 191–92

  Jungle, The (Sinclair), 28

  Justice Department, U.S., 129, 140, 172, 253–55, 262, 327, 337, 342

  FBI, 353, 368, 370

  Investigation, Bureau of, 139, 228, 285

  Kahn, Albert, 260

  Keller, Morton, 232

  Kellogg, J. H., 74, 99, 249, 270, 293

  Kemble, Fanny, 48

  Kendrick, W. Freeland, 203–4

  Kenna, Michael “Hinky Dink,” 47

  Kennedy, David M., 101

  Kennedy, John F., 367, 369

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 120, 210, 366–71

  Kennedy, Patrick J., 47, 120

  Kent, Frank, 37, 225

  Kentucky Distillers’ & Distributing Company, 61

  Kentucky Drug Company, 198

  Kerper, Joel D., 215

  Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 139

  Kimball, William W., 327

  King, Delcevere, 164

  Kingsdale, Jon M., 28–29

  Kinney, Jeremiah, 141

  Kirby, Rollin, 283

  Knox, John C., 265

  Knox, Philander C., 113

  Kramer, John F., 123

  Krauskopf, Joseph, 189

  Kresge, Howard C. “Sonny,” 213, 214

  Kresge, S. S., 213, 300–301, 348

  Kriendler, Jack, 208–9, 361

  Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 42, 86, 130, 132, 137, 186, 231, 239, 244–46, 262, 273, 306, 307, 325

  Kurtzman, Samuel, 136

  Kvale, O. J., 235

  labor movement, 19, 51, 59, 75, 85, 88, 178, 239, 260, 332

  La Guardia, Fiorello, 135, 232, 233, 274

  Lake Ellerslie, 159

  LaMontagne brothers, 209

  Landon, Alfred M., 363

  Landrith, Ira, 79, 348

  Lane, Franklin K., 3

  Lane, Winthrop D., 248

  Langley, John W., 275

  Lansky, Meyer, 151, 170, 272, 322, 366

  Lasker, Albert, 130, 219, 220

  Lazaron, Morris, 303

  Lazarus, Sylvain J., 258

  League of Nations, 231, 233, 268

  Lear, Margaret, 45, 190n

  Lee, Robert E., 37

  Lee Levy & Co., 45

  Lehman, Herbert, 353

  Lenin, V. I., 75

  Leopard’s Spots, The (Dixon), 43

  Leuchtenberg, William E., 218

  Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917, 99

  Leviathan, 336

  Levy, Lee, 44–46, 57, 190n

  Lewis, Dioclesian, 12–13, 19

  Lewis, Sinclair, 206, 291

  Lichtman, Allan J., 308

  Life, 205

  Lilly, Ken, 2

  Lincoln, Abraham, 8–10, 44, 54, 174, 208, 245, 289

  Link, Arthur S., 48, 239

  Linthicum, John C., 349–50

  Lippmann, Walter, 228, 304, 350

  Little, Edward C., 238

  Lloyd, G. E., 148

  Lloyd George, David, 74–75, 170, 171, 227

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 84

  Lodge, John C., 260–61

  Logan, Hugh, 324

  London, Jack, 28, 62–63, 64

  Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 129, 130, 227

  Longworth, Nicholas, 129, 130

  Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 86

  Looking Backward (Bellamy), 19

  Los Angeles Times, 174, 188, 276n, 339

  Lost Lady, A (Cather), 207

  Louisville Herald-Post, 200

  Lowman, Seymour, 280, 293, 338

  Loy, Myrna, 373–74

 
Luciano, Lucky, 273, 322, 365–66

  Luther, Martin, 43

  Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, 194–95, 211

  Lynd, Helen, 118

  Lynd, Robert, 118

  Lythgoe, Gertrude, 162

  McAdoo, William G., 244, 245–46, 330

  McBride, Scott, 270, 287–88, 292, 300, 301, 308, 347, 348

  McCarthyism, 364

  McConnell, William C., 143

  McCoy, Bill, 161–63, 165, 167–68, 198, 231, 346

  McCulloch, Joseph S., 204

  MacDonald, Ramsay, 367

  McDonough, Martin S., 123–24, 353

  McGee, John F., 231, 261

  Machado, Gerardo, 228

  Mackey, Harry A., 323

  McKinley, William O., 24, 40, 245

  McManus, “Big John,” 46–47

  McMullin, Stewart, 136–37

  McReynolds, James C., 281–82

  Madden, Owney, 273–74, 277

  Madison, James, 8, 54

  Madre-Marshall, Marie, 269

  Magna Carta, 113

  Maine Law, 11–12

  Main Street (Lewis), 206

  Manchester, William, 206

  Manilow, Barry, 11n

  Mann, Horace, 12

  Mann, James, 71

  Mann Act, 151

  Margolis, Harry, 188

  Marine Corps, U.S., 203

  Markey, Morris, 230, 374

  Maroney, Henry E., 223

  Marryat, Frederick, 7

  Martini, Louis M., 182, 186, 351

  Marx, Karl, 75

  Masterson, Bat, 2

  Matoff, Jean Bronfman, 155

  Matoff, Paul, 151, 155

  Mauretania, 218

  Maxtone-Graham, John, 218

  Mayer, Louis B., 139

  Mazel Tov, 169

  Mazzone, Jason, 264

  Meads, Robert T., 223

  Mellon, Ailsa, 268

  Mellon, Andrew W., 130, 131, 133–34, 140, 142, 144, 172, 200, 222, 287, 292, 315, 327–28

  Mellon, Paul, 133, 214, 315

  Mellon, Richard, 134

  Memphis Commercial Appeal, 46

  Mencken, H. L., 55, 62, 88, 89, 106, 126, 206, 207, 231–32, 258, 268, 302, 326, 352

  Mereaux, L. A., 259

  Merrimac, 68, 72, 92

  Merz, Charles, 100, 296, 329

  Messenger, The, 212

  Methodist Church, 13, 17, 37, 38, 41, 42, 76, 88, 92–93, 186, 191, 245, 302, 307, 308, 326

  Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of, 100, 119, 231, 319, 350

  Michaelson, M. Alfred, 303, 324–25, 338, 350–51

  Michigan, University of, 22, 97, 223

  Miller, Etta Mae, 319, 323

  Miller Brewing Company, 85, 100, 358

  Mills, Chester P., 189

  Milwaukee Journal, 38, 100

  Miron, Jeffrey A., 249

  Model License League, 34, 46, 98

  Mohammed, 174

  Moley, Raymond, 212–13

  Mondavi, Cesare, 178n

  Mondavi, Robert, 178n

  moonshine, 25, 54, 89, 106, 107, 178, 204, 205, 334

  Moray, Alastair (pseud.), 163–64

  Morgan, Helen, 337

  Morgan, William M., 324–25, 338

  Morris, Willie, 374–75

  Morrison, Martin A., 72

  Morrow, A. R., 119–20

  Mott, Lucretia, 48

  Mullan-Gage Act of 1923, 242–43, 246, 253

  Mundelein, Cardinal George, 184

  Murdock, Catherine Gilbert, 19, 211

  Murphy, Frank, 208

  Murphy, Grayson Mallet-Prevost, 296

  My Sam (Bronfman), 154

  Nagel, Charles, 282

  Nassau Tribune, 162

  Nation, 74, 268, 304

  Nation, Carry, 24–25, 27, 29, 106

  National Association of Commerce and Labor, 30

  National Distilleries Limited, 169

  National Distillers Corporation, 349, 353, 367

  National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, 361

  National Prohibition Act, see Volstead Act of 1919

  National Protective Organization, 30

  National Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association, 64, 84

  National Temperance Council, 347–48

  nativism, 42, 44, 48, 52, 186, 244–45, 305

  Naval Academy, U.S., 67, 69, 70, 80, 89

  Navy, U.S., 2, 58, 68, 69, 77, 101, 117, 165

  near beer, 109, 149, 215, 249–51

  Neely, Matthew M., 134

  Ness, Eliot, 135–36, 345

  New Deal, 230, 362

  Newman, Peter C., 167–68

  New Republic, 79, 92, 131, 268

  New York, N.Y., 10, 108–9, 241–42, 343–44

  Greenwich Village in, 207, 208, 334

  Harlem in, 208, 212, 274, 375

  saloons and speakeasies in, 27–28, 30, 50–51, 84, 107n, 196–97, 208–10, 242, 243, 246

  New York board of aldermen, 48, 232

  New York Daily News, 276

  New Yorker, 209–10, 217, 230, 265–66, 322, 339, 374

  New York Herald, 77, 152, 160, 189, 219

  New York Herald Tribune, 38, 201

  New York Police Department (NYPD), 235, 242, 264

  New York State Temperance Society, 15

  New York Sun, 208

  New York Times, 71, 99, 122, 124, 129, 136, 138, 139, 166, 191, 196, 237, 268–71, 278, 280, 321, 325, 329, 335, 355, 357, 369

  New York Tribune, 78, 104, 219

  New York World, 3, 59, 210, 221, 283, 288, 302, 326, 337–38

  Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 75

  Nicholson, S. E., 286

  Nineteenth Amendment, 56, 126

  Nixon, Richard M., 69n

  Norris, George, 135, 206, 302, 348

  North Toward Home (Morris), 374–75

  Northwestern University, 17

  Oakley, Imogen B., 236

  O’Banion, Dion, 276–77

  Oberlin College, 35, 38–39

  Ochs, Adolph S., 129

  O’Connor, John J., 361

  Odegard, Peter, 80

  O’Hara, John, 224

  Ohlinger, Gustavus, 102

  Oldfield, W. A., 218

  Old Overholt distillery, 113, 134, 200

  Old-Time Saloon, The (Ade), 29, 83

  Olmstead, Roy, 284–86, 292, 303

 

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