"7 Chicago Gangsters Slain By Firing Squad of Rivals, Some in Police Uniforms"
Newspaper article
By: The New York Times Date: February 15, 1929
Source: "7 Chicago Gangsters Slain By Firing Squad of Rivals, Some in Police Uniforms." New York Times, February 15, 1929, 1–2.
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Introduction
Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, banning the production of alcohol in the United States. Prohibition had been high on the wish list of moral reformers throughout the nineteenth century, as the reformers believed it would protect families and improve people; industrialists thought it would increase...
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