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When liquor wasnt alowwed in the usa or in the Bahamas
bootlegging
Prohibition
Prohibition ;)
President Herbert Hoover visited the Belgian Embassy to drink alcohol during prohibition because it was legally Not U.S. soil and prohibition was not in effect there.
Soon after prohibition ended, he started up a large liquor importing company with exclusive import rightsto various British brands. After a few years he sold out at a handsome profit. He was accused of bootlegging liquor during prohibition but there is no hard evidence of this.
"Many 1930s gangsters got rich selling bootleg liquor during Prohibition."
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The temperance movement and the Progressive movement both pushed for prohibition,
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i caused crime
Prohibition. Regular bars couldn't sell liquor anymore, so people went to the "underground" speakeasies that sold liquor illegally.