Baltimore Prohibition: Wet and Dry in the Free State by Michael T haute qualité Walsh NEUF

Product Name: Baltimore Prohibition: Wet and Dry in the Free State by Michael T haute qualité Walsh NEUF
EAN：9781540227638 UPC：9781540227638 ISBN：9781540227638 MPN：N/A Format：Hardback, 194 pages
There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland. The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons. Maryland was the only state to not pass a "baby" Volstead enforcement act. Speakeasies emerged at Frostburgs Gunter Hotel and at Baltimores famed Belvedere Hotel haute qualité, whose famous owls blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor. Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets. Journalist H.L. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore," drew national attention criticizing the new law. Author Michael T. Walsh presents this colorful history..