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Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s

  • Written by Richard F. Hamm, Professor of History, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageCoast Guardsmen stand in front of two truckloads of liquor seized on April 14, 1931, after a battle between three policemen and several alcohol smugglers near Falmouth, Mass.AP Photo

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