* Reich would eventually spin out of control, inventing an “orgone energy accumulator”—essentially an orgasm machine—that was supposed to jack up the universe’s good vibes and thus increase “orgastic potency.” He would be put on trial for fraud in the 1950s.
* In 1941, faced with a choice between his boss, the Republican incumbent Edward Blythin, and his friend, Democrat Frank Lausche, Eliot had publicly supported Blythin but couldn’t bring himself to vote.
* Fraley would eventually use Eliot’s Cleveland years as the subject of his highly fictionalized sequel, 4 Against the Mob.
* $2,500 in 1927 is equivalent to about $32,000 in 2013.
* The building, at Randolph and Washington Streets, was torn down in 1965 and replaced by the iconic Richard J. Daley Center.
* The Bureau of Prohibition was promoted to independent status within the Treasury Department in April 1927, seven months after Eliot became an agent. The agency was undergoing long-overdue professionalization at the time, including the establishment of formal law-enforcement training for agents and the institution of the Special Agency Division.
* Eliot’s birth date would be entered incorrectly in his college records, listing him as being born in 1903. Many news reports and even his cemetery memorial would give an incorrect age for him in the years that followed.
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