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Liberated Spirits

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by Hugh Ambrose


  Women’s National Republican Executive Committee, 115

  Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Repeal (WONPR), 234–37, 247–49, 262–76, 278–84

  Women’s Republican Association of New York, 49

  Women’s State Executive Committee, New York, 48, 82

  Women’s suffrage, 7, 9, 15, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 34, 41, 44, 46, 131, 144–45

  Women’s Trade Union League, 48

  Woodmont Beach bust, 142, 162, 186–88, 187

  Work, Hubert, 212–14, 217, 219–21

  World Court, 26, 100, 197

  World War I, 17–18, 25, 32, 214

  Yaden, James, 189–90

  Yellowstone National Park, 184

  YMCA, 99

  Youngquist, C. A., 243

  Zambesi (ship), 74

  Zev case, 177–79, 181, 184, 188, 195, 254

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  * The terms “rumrunner” and “bootlegger” are slang terms often used interchangeably. Americans in the 1920s commonly used the word “rum” when referring to any type of distilled alcohol. For the purposes of clarity, in this book the term “rumrunner” denotes someone who smuggles alcoholic beverages across the U.S. border and moves large lots of it around the country, selling it wholesale; while “bootlegger” specifies someone who, on either a wholesale or retail level, sells alcoholic beverages.

  * Some newspaper reporters misspelled Roy Olmstead’s last name, writing “Olmsted,” for years. The correct spelling has been used throughout this text to avoid confusion.

  * The Internal Revenue Bureau was the precursor to today’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

  * The League did not adopt this name until 1920, existing as the National American Women’s Suffrage Association, but I have chosen to use LWV throughout for consistency.

  * Reading the dozens of notable books about the Eighteenth Amendment, as well as those histories concerning the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, a reader might be convinced the two had nothing to do with each other.

  * In 1920, the area known as Los Angeles’ downtown, a center of commerce, government, culture, and public transportation, was already being pulled apart as the city sprawled in all directions.

  * Dorothy Brown, in her fine biography of Mabel Walker Willebrandt, stated that Willebrandt found a legal mechanism by which male patrons of brothels were compelled to stand trial, resulting in a marked decrease in customers. Brown based this claim on an interview she conducted in 1978 with one of her subject’s dear friends. No record of the interview exists, according to Ms. Brown, and no independent evidence for this claim was uncovered.

  * Historians often attribute Pauline Sabin’s wealth to her uncle, Joy Morton, founder of the Morton Salt Company, without offering any documentation or an explanation as to why her father’s brother had been so generous. If he left the gift in his will, Mr. Morton passed away in 1934, long after his niece needed it.

  * The reader will recall that the Republicans held an “unofficial” state convention in February of 1920, also. The word “convention” appears to have had a broad meaning, designating any gathering of delegates put forth by respective county committees.

  * Newspaper coverage in 1920 mentions women’s Republican clubs on many occasions, although it is unclear if these referred to the same group. The author has chosen to use the date used by the WNRC on its website.

  * The Radio Act of 1927 set a standard along these lines by requiring radio, and later television, stations to grant equal time to candidates; that is, if one candidate or viewpoint was permitted on air, opposing candidates and viewpoints must be accorded the same privilege.

  * Such action today by law enforcement would invite charges of entrapment.

  * The claim to being the “biggest case” was based upon the total number of defendants, as of that date.

  * Many presidents departed muggy Washington, D.C., during the summer, when Congress was out of session, for more temperate locations.

  * A nod to the legend in which the Sabine women halted a war with Rome by standing between the two factions.

  About the Authors

  Hugh Ambrose was a noted historian and the bestselling author of The Pacific: Hell Was an Ocean Away. He passed away in 2015 after completing this book. John Schuttler is a consulting historian, researching and writing on numerous topics for dozens of clients in the public and private sectors.

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