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The Day - Prohibition was a shooting war for the Coast Guard ...  Aug 23, 2015 ... It was 90 years ago that the small service, until then largely focused on ... When it came into view, he recognized it as the Black Duck, which he had ... The Coast Guard routinely fired on the much faster rumrunners to enforce compliance. ... "Big Bill" Dwyer, king of the Manhattan bootleggers, made bribing...
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THE SPORTING LIFE BIG BILL DWYER - NY Daily News  Oct 5, 1999 ... As it turned out, Dwyer also had to pay for New Madison Square ... For it happened that Big Bill Dwyer, as all New York called William ... speedboats enlisted into the noble service of quenching America's ... He controlled dozens of skippers and an army of landside distributors; the King of the Rum Runners,...
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Bill Dwyer (mobster) - Wikipedia  William Vincent Dwyer (18831946), known as "Big Bill" Dwyer, was an early Prohibition ... In his heyday he reportedly ran a fleet of 20 rum-runners. ... However, in 1925, Dwyer was arrested for attempting to bribe members of the Coast Guard during an ... Dwyer paid $75,000 to turn the Tigers into the New York Americans.
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Black Mass Tidbit #5: The Irish Mob - JOHNNY DEPP ZONE  Jul 25, 2014 ... As it turns out, the character of Cody Jarrett is based on a real Irish ... Hearts of Oak whose members wore sprigs of oak leaf on their hats. ... The Irish worked their way up, starting at the lowest rungs  a runner .... Madden and his partners, Big Bill Dwyer and Big Frenchy, also muscled their way into a piece...
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Big Bill Dwyer - King of Rum runners - American Mafia  Feb 4, 2016 ... Bill Dwyer is known to have started as an ordinary dockworker, then entered large scale bootlegging and was called 'King of Rum runners'. ... in England, Caribbean and Canada to bring smuggled liquor into the States. ... business, he also had bribed the Coast Guard and the police to look the other way.
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Vietnam veteran, homeless and suffering PTSD, finds refuge in ...  He'd completed payments on those 32 acres in Parish, New York, several ... Real People. ... Sam Bristol served in the U.S. Navy as a SEAL during the Vietnam Conflict. ... him rebuild a house, and they didn't have room in their own for him, either. .... Sam Mentz, seen here at the Section 8 office, manages Section 8 military...
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Swift Boat Vets for Truth: Fact or Fiction - Democratic Underground  "Ties to Gannon can be traced via the Swift Boat Vets Web site . ... veteran who first met Franke when they served together in the Mekong Delta. ... John E. O'Neill to attack Kerry, he also formed an entire group around him called ... John Kerry's heroic war record is 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth', which today...
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Billy Budd/Chapter 18 - Wikisource, the free online library  Apr 15, 2012 ... But from the latter it was not often that a sailor or petty- officer of those ... board the Indomitable the place of a previous master-at-arms disabled and ashore. ... Quite lately he (Claggart) had begun to suspect that on the gun decks ... "William Budd," repeated Captain Vere with unfeigned astonishment; "and...
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A new surge is fueling membership in military ... - Military Times  Jul 12, 2015 ... They called themselves "outlaws"  not because they were criminals but ... The melee between rival biker groups  and eventually local law enforcement ... Members of Schwartz's Leathernecks MC were among those in...
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The bootleg politician: He could have anything he wanted, except ...  Oct 10, 1992 ... And he had a rare gift for publicity, but was least good at selling himself. ... of an Irish immigrant was born in 1888 into the tightly-knit family of a liquor merchant turned ... Even when his second son was a US congressman, Joe .... The ambassador had no faith that the British cause would prevail in a war with...
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Jersey Hustle: The real-life story of Abscam | NJ.com  Nov 25, 2013 ... But while names have been changed, and many of its characters ... The elaborate sting ensnared seven members of Congress, ... Weinberg dreamed big and it was only after setting up one of his ... As a cover, in case anyone checked their backstory, the FBI created a company called Abdul Enterprises Ltd.,...
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Wild Bill Donovan by Douglas C. Waller  Reviews, Discussion ...  Bob said: This was the guy who essentially started the forerunner of the CIA and most ... man who came to head the OSS during World War II (the precursor to the CIA). ... Mr. Waller portrays Gen Donovan as a week administrator/manager, but a ...... anywhere at the drop of a hat and littlerally ran into and through enemy fire.
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Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration scandals - Wikipedia  An examination of the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant reveals many scandals and fraudulent activities associated with his administration, ... For example, when the Whiskey Ring scandal broke out in 1875, Grant, in a reforming mood, ... The Crdit Mobilier is not included as a Grant scandal since the company was founded...
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the 1963 Secret Service - Page 9 - JFK Assassination Debate - The ...  But he most assuredly did not "run off" insofar as that terminology implies ... written and verbal orders to Benteen to rejoin his command after first returning to .... Custer explicit instructions to lead the Seventh Cavalry up the nearby ..... His career took a brief detour in 1867 when he was court-martialed at Fort...
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Sam Houston, General, President Republic of Texas  While stationed in Nashville, he was assigned as sub-Indian agent to the Cherokees. ... He drank so heavily that he earned the nickname "Big Drunk." ... Houston was found guilty in the high profile trial, but thanks to high placed friends ..... John Hoyt Williams, Sam Houston: A Biography of the Father of Texas (New York:...
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5 Patriot Spies of the American Revolution - History Lists  Oct 20, 2015 ... From a doomed Patriot to an officer who spied on the British in plain sight, get ... When General George Washington's forces became bottled up on Manhattan ... During the Yorktown campaign, the Marquis de Lafayette found an unlikely secret agent in James Armistead, a black slave who got his master's...
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A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy's End of Alcohol at Sea - USNI ...  Jul 1, 2014 ... Inheriting Britain's Royal Navy tradition of providing sailors with a ... in U.S. Navy ships was reserved for the wardroom and the captain's ... Grog is a concoction of rum, water and citrus juice that was originally drunk by British sailors and .... like the sailors are a bunch of drunkstoo bad ONE person had...
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Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Wikipedia  Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was a political group (527 group) of ... (See John Kerry military service controversy.) ... These claims caused tremendous controversy during the election, .... O'Neill served on the Swift boats after Kerry left Vietnam, and Corsi never...
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Drinking Whiskey in the Whiskey Rebellion: The Soldiers' Perspective  Aug 31, 2016 ... The infamous Whiskey Rebellion, told from the perspective of the soldiers who suppressed it. ... washed over the western Pennsylvania countryside in 1794. ... Hamilton and his Federalist allies believed they had restored order. ... and George Washington amassed to put down the rebellion, though,...
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Arkansas Connections: A Time-line of the Clinton Years by Sam Smith  He was arrested in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and extradited back to New York. .... According to Roger Morris in Partners in Power, a young woman lawyer in ... Inn between 1979 and 1981, where she saw Clinton using cocaine "quite avidly" with ..... funds -- deposited in Worthen by Governor Bill Clinton -- suddenly lose 15% of...
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Read the full report here. - Voices for National Service  Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack ... national service programs yield $4.00 for each federal dollar invested. .... urged Americans to devote 4,000 hours to volunteer service in their lifetimes. ... acquire during their service term make them more likely to be employed and to .... they do this. .