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by Daniel Okrent


  Olmstead v. United States, 286

  O’Neill, Eugene, 196

  Only in America (Golden), 326n

  O’Shaughnessy, P. J., 263

  O’Toole, Patricia, 143

  Our Dancing Daughters, 213

  “Our Girls” (Lewis), 13

  Outlook, 244, 321

  Over Here (Kennedy), 101

  Overholt, Abraham, 134

  Owens, Hamilton, 164

  Pabst, Gustave, 30, 31, 85, 100, 103

  Pabst, Henry, 103

  Pabst Brewing Company, 31, 250, 251, 358

  Padlocks of 1927, 265

  Pan American Airways, 217

  Panic of 1873, 194

  Paris Peace Talks, 227

  Parker, Walter, 120

  Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 236

  Patterson, Michael S., 326

  Pennsylvania Gazette, 7

  Penrose, Boies, 142–43, 145

  Perelli-Minetti, Antonio, 258

  Perils of Prosperity, The (Leuchtenberg), 218

  Personal Liberty League, 30

  Pew, J. Howard, 362

  Philadelphia Organization of Retail Druggists, 197

  Phillips, H. I., 208

  Phillips, Wendell, 19, 20

  Pickett, Deets, 119

  Pickford, Mary, 120

  Piel, William, 33, 250

  Pinchot, Cornelia, 233

  Pinchot, Gifford, 142–45, 229, 233, 262, 271, 330

  Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 194

  Pius XI, Pope, 306, 357

  Plavchan, Ronald J., 250

  Plumb, A. H., 23

  Pollan, Michael, 8

  Pomerene, Atlee, 229

  populism, 42, 52, 56, 57, 76, 77, 98

  Potter, Henry Codman, 28

  Pound, Roscoe, 253

  Powell, Dawn, 207

  Powell, William, 373–74

  Powers, Madelon, 27

  Prager, Robert, 101

  Prejudice and the Old Politics (Lichtman), 308

  President Harding, 219

  Progressive Party, 74, 76

  progressives, 42, 46–52, 68–69, 85–86, 230

  Prohibition, 10–11

  American literature and films impacted by, 193, 205–7, 212–13, 215, 221, 222, 224, 373–74

  celebration of, 2–3, 117–18

  crime and corruption linked to, 107–8, 113–14, 124–25, 128–29, 148–64, 170, 198–99, 224, 271–88, 321–22, 345, 364–66, 369, 373

  enforcement of, 57, 106, 108, 109–14, 118, 122–25, 131–45, 152–53, 158, 164, 188–89, 202, 227–28, 232, 234–35, 242–43, 252–66, 271–72, 277–88, 317–28, 333–34, 376

  hoped for benefits of, 2, 75–76, 231, 298

  initial drying-up effects of, 118–19, 120, 249, 373

  laying in supplies before start of, 106–7, 113, 120, 121, 129–30

  opposition to, 3, 12, 31–34, 58, 66, 71, 83, 120–21, 172, 186, 219, 233–34, 328–30

  social changes associated with, 3–4, 107n, 108, 114, 205–24, 248–49, 373–76

  see also Eighteenth Amendment; Volstead Act of 1919

  Prohibition at Its Worst (Fisher), 248

  Prohibition Bureau, 133–37, 183–84, 192, 197, 228, 236–37, 245, 252, 314, 344, 353

  agents of, 135–37, 140–41, 144, 179–80, 188, 202, 208, 232, 257, 261, 271, 285, 325, 327, 331

  budget of, 228, 232, 255, 316–17

  corruption in, 136–37, 140–41, 261

  Prohibition movement:

  disparate factions in, 41–52, 83, 86

  early legislation in, 11–12, 21–22, 39–40

  linking of income tax cause to, 55–58

  linking of woman suffrage to, 62–66, 95

  sustained activism in, 1, 2–3, 10–25, 33–95

  Prohibition Party, 19, 36, 57, 109, 188, 229, 340

  prostitution, 10, 50–51, 151, 274

  Protestantism, 36–37, 48, 77, 83, 118, 192

  Pugh, A. R., 256

  Puritanism, 7, 172

  Pyle, Ernie, 182

  Quakerism, 305

  Raab, Selwyn, 345

  racism, 42–46, 55, 57, 69–70, 76–77, 86, 90, 137, 230, 236–37, 297, 353

  Raft, George, 265

  Raines, John, 50

  Raines Law, 50

  Rains, Claude, 182

  Randolph, A. Philip, 75–76

  Rankin, Jeannette, 66

  Rappe, Virginia, 223

  Raskob, John J., 296, 298, 305–6, 313–15, 316, 332, 338, 351, 362

  Rayburn, Sam, 91

  Reconstruction, 42, 57

  Reed, David A., 239

  Reed, James A., 109, 231–32, 268–71, 274, 287, 304n, 337

  Reeves, Ira L., 257

  Reifel, Henry, 370

  Reliance, 217

  Remus, George, 198–99, 271–72

  Repeal, 249, 251, 328–30, 358, 361–62, 368, 370, 374

  advocacy of, 58, 120, 224, 243, 295, 299, 309, 332–33, 339, 348–54, 361

  opposition to, 353, 356–58

  see also Twenty-first Amendment

  Repeal, 338

  Republican National Committee (RNC), 224, 290, 307, 316

  Republican National Conventions, 125–26, 315

  Republican Party, 12, 36, 40, 41, 77, 84, 88, 108, 133, 151, 229, 289–90, 307–9, 338–39

  Revenue Act of 1913, 62

  Revenue Act of 1916, 297

  Reynolds, William E., 166

  Richmond Times-Dispatch, 88, 357

  Riis, Jacob, 27–28, 50

  Riordan, P. W., 182–83

  Roar of the Twenties, The (Gray), 148

  Roberts, Kenneth L., 236, 238

  Robertson, Terence, 370

  Robinson, Arthur, 332

  Robinson, Joseph, 304

  Rockefeller, John D., 39, 40, 133

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 233, 300, 301, 350–51

  Roe v. Wade, 286

  Rogers, Will, 246

  Rolph, James, Jr., 126, 127

  Roman Catholic Church, 89, 111, 182–85, 187, 238, 305–6, 359

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 349n

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 2, 56, 58, 113, 239, 243, 349–53, 361–62, 367, 375

  Roosevelt, James, 366–67, 368

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 46–47, 48, 69, 99–100, 129, 142, 224, 229

  Root, Elihu, 84, 101, 120–21, 281, 353, 363

  Root, Elihu, Jr., 253

  Root, Grace, 363

  Rorabaugh, W. J., 8

  Rose, Billy, 265

  Rosenstiel, Lewis, 359

  Ross, William Henry, 156–57, 171

  Rove, Karl, 40n

  Rowland, Robin, 343

  Royal Bank of Canada, 161, 375

  Royden, Thomas, 220

  Rucker, W. W., 71

  rum, 7, 8, 47, 86, 110, 153, 163, 165, 217

  Rum Row, 165–70, 173, 210, 262, 272, 277–79, 284, 286, 302–3, 343

  rum-running, 153, 163, 165, 167–70, 218, 277–81, 346

  Runyon, Damon, 167

  Rush, Benjamin, 9

  Russell, Howard Hyde, 34, 35–36, 38–39, 78–79, 117

  Russell, Joshua E., 274–75

  Russian Revolution, 75

  Rutter, Samuel R., 188

  rye whiskey, 8, 16, 54, 78, 113, 189, 219, 243, 360

  Sabin, Charles, 290, 296

  Sabin, Pauline Morton, 224, 227, 229, 289–90, 304, 315–16, 320, 339–41, 346, 350, 353–54, 363–64

  Sable Island, 167–68

  Sackett, Frederic M., 229–30

  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 277, 320

  saloons, 13–16, 23–30, 33

  attacks on, 24–25

  breweries tied to, 29–30, 41, 64–65

  closing of, 14, 41, 63

  evils of, 16, 33, 49–50

  services provided in, 28–29, 47, 50–51

  Salvation Army, 74

  Sanctuary (Faulkner), 205

  San Francisco Argonaut, 174

  San Francisco Chronicle, 1

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sp; San Francisco Examiner, 181, 293

  San Francisco Wholesalers’ and Retailers’ Review, 113

  Sargent, John G., 285

  Saturday Evening Post, 236, 238, 334, 366

  Sayler, C. L., 257

  Scalcucci brothers, 123

  Scarface, 365

  Schoonmaker, Frank, 358–59

  Schulte, David, 200

  Schultz, Dutch, 280

  Scientific Temperance Association, 23

  Scopes Monkey Trial, 55

  Scotch whiskey, 77, 93, 113, 129, 148–50, 155–57, 160, 163, 168, 170–73, 209, 222, 323–24, 361, 370

  Scotch Whisky Association, 171

  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 285

  Sebastiani, Sam, 175

  Seldes, Gilbert, 15

  Seligman, E. R. A., 56

  Senate, U.S., 31, 57, 61, 70, 73, 89–90, 103, 109, 110, 129, 231, 237–40, 263, 267–71, 317, 333, 336, 352

  Seventeenth Amendment, 56, 87

  Shaw, George Bernard, 78, 156

  Shearer, Norma, 213

  Sheppard, Morris, 57, 61, 89, 143, 230, 233, 249, 287, 330, 349, 352, 356–57

  Sheppard Amendment, 89, 91–93, 350

  Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 233, 297

  Shields, John K., 131

  Shipping Board, U.S., 130, 219

  Shubert, Lee, 83

  Silver, Burdett & Company, 22–23

  Simmons, William Joseph, 86, 244

  Simms, John, 252

  Simpson, Daisy, 136

  Sinclair, Andrew, 14

  Sinclair, Upton, 28, 62, 98, 205

  Sirica, John J., 139, 325n, 356

  Sixteenth Amendment, 57, 58, 60, 62, 87, 363

  60 Minutes, 369

  slavery, 3, 12, 19, 42, 73, 93

  Sloan, Alfred P., 314, 351, 362–63

  Smasher’s Mail, The, 24

  Smith, Alfred Emanuel “Al,” 241–43, 245–46, 253, 292, 302–9, 313, 314, 316, 326, 347, 352, 356, 362, 363

  Smith, C. D., 216

  Smith, Frank L., 303

  Smith, Hannah Whitall, 16

  Smith, Hoke, 43

  Smith, John W., 260

  Smith, Moe, 136

  Smith, William P., 299

  socialism, 19, 36, 42, 75

  soft drinks, 4, 149, 208, 215–16, 220–21, 323, 349, 352

  Solomon, Charles “King,” 273

  Somerset, Lady Henry, 18

  Southern California, University of, 140

  Spanish-American War, 54, 68

  Spargo, John, 75

  speakeasies, 33, 107n, 197, 207–13, 222, 227, 229, 242, 243, 246, 251–52, 260, 264–65, 314, 322, 335–36, 353, 374

  Spellman, Francis, 306

  Sprecher, Hannah, 187

  Sreben, Anastassoff, 201

  S. S. Pierce Company, 200

  Stack, Robert, 135–36

  Standard Brands, Inc., 334

  Stanford, Leland, 304

  Stanford University, 2, 86

  Stanley, Augustus Owsley, 229–30

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 14, 15, 48

  State Department, U.S., 171–72, 344

  states rights, 70, 72, 90, 121

  Stayton, William H., 295–96, 298, 299, 332, 333

  Steffens, Lincoln, 59–60

  Steinberger, Louis, 216

  Sterling, Thomas, 112

  Steuart, Justin, 125, 131, 294, 301

  St. Helena Star, 177, 359

  Stickney, A. M., 245

  Stimson, Henry L., 51

  St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 122

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 336, 369

  stock market crash of 1929, 328–29, 330–31

  Stoll, Horatio F., 174–76, 177–78

  Stone, Harlan Fiske, 139, 228–29, 253–54, 263, 281, 285

  Stone, Lucy, 14–15, 35

  Stork Club, 107n, 197, 209

  Stork Club, The (Blumenthal), 197

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 26n

  Stowell, Charles H., 22

  Straight Up or On the Rocks (Grimes), 215

  Strange, John, 100

  Straton, John Roach, 200

  Strong, James G., 240

  Sullivan, John L., 74

  Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 205

  Sunday, William Ashley “Billy,” 2, 41, 96–97, 99, 117

  Sunday closing laws, 47, 50, 84, 374

  Sunset, 178

  Sunstein, A. J., 41

  Supreme Court, U.S., 4, 56, 104, 108, 121, 131, 139, 220, 239, 253, 262, 263, 265, 281–88, 292, 349

  Survey, 188

  Swann, Edward, 124

  Symonette, Roland, 161

  syphilis, 16

  Taber, L. J., 79

  Taft, William Howard, 58, 108, 151, 281, 283–86, 288, 291

  Tammany Hall, 89, 241, 306, 307

  tariffs, 54–55, 56, 68, 77

  Tarkington, Booth, 98

  Tarver, Malcolm C., 311

  taxation, 3, 52

  alcohol, 12, 14, 30, 33, 53–55, 57, 75, 108, 133–34, 142, 249, 299, 332, 333, 361–62

  financing of wars with, 12, 30, 54

  income, 55–58, 69, 133, 142, 233, 297, 331–33, 361–62, 363

  poll, 44

  Taylor, Harry P., 196

  Teapot Dome scandal, 130, 227

  temperance movement, 9–26, 164

  brewers vs., 30–34

  men vs. women as leaders of, 15, 17, 63

  reform movements tied to, 15, 17, 18–19, 36, 42, 63

  strategies of, 20–23, 24–25

  see also Prohibition movement;

  specific organizations

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 148

  Their True Faith and Allegiance (Ohlinger), 102

  Theory of Interest (Fisher), 98–99

  Thin Man, The, 373–74

  Thirteenth Amendment, 3, 93

  This Earth Is Mine, 182

  Thomas, Elmer, 230

  Thompson, Eliza Jane Trimble, 13–14, 16, 17, 20, 33, 132

  Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” 257, 303

  Thornton, Henry, 343

  Ticknor, George, 9

  Tillman, John Newton, 42–43, 44

  Timberlake, James H., 48n

  Time, 200, 205, 232, 319, 324, 341, 350, 356

  Times (London), 160

  Tinkham, George, 267

  Tolstoy, Leo, 18

  Torrio, John, 272, 273, 345

  Touhy, Roger, 345

  Treasury Department, U.S., 133, 137, 201, 285, 292, 342, 360

  Trohan, Walter, 367, 371

 

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