Friday, January 13, 2006
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Voice of the People: "One Wet Night"
I wonder whom those prohibition sharks think they are fooling when they tell of how they succeeded in keeping New York dry New Year’s Eve. If they remained dry themselves they were the only ones to stay that way, . . . The writer chanced to be in the dining room of one of the most prominent hotels that evening, and not once did he see any one trying to hide a bottle. I never saw such flagrant and open violation of laws in my life. Booze flowed like water.
N.C. McCormack
[“Voice of the People,” New York Daily News, 1/3/24, p.15]
N.C. McCormack
[“Voice of the People,” New York Daily News, 1/3/24, p.15]
Sunday, January 01, 2006
New Year's Resolutions: Wet and Dry
“Any bootlegger: I resolve to work heart and soul for the retention of the volstead law and against legalizing manufacture and sale of light wines and beers—because I am getting richer as things are.[New York Daily News January 1, 1924, editorial page.]
Any ardent dry and any prohibition enforcement agent: We resolve to show more consideration for bootleggers—because we don’t want to work ourselves out of soft jobs."

