Chapter 2907 Water and Dreams (10)

There is a long and narrow island due east of New York City. It is called Long Island. There is a place called Laurel Manor on Long Island. A large party is held there every summer. When the weather is good, you can watch it through the large terrace.

The beautiful view to Peckney Bay. There are four neat gardens and eight outbuildings, all of which follow the style of an English country manor. In order to make the house look historical, the designer also specially designed the roof to be pitted.

Mrs. Binns, the hostess of this house, is smart, beautiful, elegant and energetic, and she always shines in social situations. She is a member of the National Women's Club, and her husband, Charles, is a partner of JP Morgan Chase Bank.

He holds positions on the board of directors of 16 companies. The friends who frequent Laurel Manor are all gentle and elegant people who live a sophisticated life. Even if they have a casual meal at home, they must wear a black tie.

They were opponents of Prohibition. Mrs. Binns did not understand why some women supported "dry" Senate candidates in order to support Prohibition, regardless of other matters closely related to the national interest. She felt that Hoover was a contemporary

The greatest humanitarian, in order to support his campaign, she once convened a group of "bank tycoon wives" to raise campaign funds.

Although New York repealed Prohibition in 1923, this was mainly because the newly elected governor that year signed a new prohibition bill, the Marengage Law. He believed that prohibition required families and churches, not laws.

So the original prohibition on alcohol was repealed.

The original Prohibition was repealed, and the new Prohibition was never effectively enforced, because if the police really arrested prisoners according to that standard, New York would convene 18,000 juries every day.

The original Prohibition law required the New York police to shoulder the responsibility of enforcing federal laws. This is no longer the case. The "ball" has been kicked to Washington. Therefore, as long as the bars continue to remain underground and do not disrupt the peace of the community, the New York police will not offend.

But even so, it still brought inconvenience to Mrs. Binns' life. They had to hide the wine behind a movable decorative fake book wall. Sometimes when the wine was not enough, they only needed to nod to the butler or send a message to the driver.

Instructions are given and all kinds of fine wines are on hand.

The rich are almost not subject to mandatory prohibition orders. Prohibitionists, especially those in Washington, D.C., have always been the object of ridicule by those with well-off families, deep connections, and strong social resources. When they communicated, there was even one

A college professor described Prohibition as a tyranny, and the Fugitive Slave Act that former Northerners resisted.

At the same time, in Chicago, 215 gang members were killed in three years. "Fiddlers" carrying tools to make a living appeared on the street at the same time as the Thompson sisters. Here, the "typewriter" was ringing, and there was singing.

"Ave Maria".

When Prohibition began, the U.S. Coast Guard had only 55 law enforcement vessels, and the bootlegging fleet could already be compared to the size of a navy.

Transporting bootleg liquor is very risky, and they face the risk of being robbed at any time. The huge profits brought by the bootlegging trade allow them to upgrade their equipment just like the gangs on land. The Coast Guard's monthly salary is only US$36, and they want to keep them

Being "incorruptible" was difficult, so it's not surprising that newspapers at the time were filled with reports of Coast Guard misconduct, military tribunals, and torture to extract confessions.

When funds became abundant, the project to develop speedboats for the Coast Guard failed, and the bootleggers soon offered higher prices to shipbuilders to design boats that were faster than the speedboats tendered for.

Although the United States has its own grape-growing regions, it is generally accepted that the best red wine comes from France, and the Mex region of Bordeaux was developed during Prohibition.

Even the slightly more enterprising bootleggers were unwilling to sell local wine, since one quart of industrially produced gin had the same alcohol content as six bottles of ordinary home-brew wine.

But for wine merchants in Boston, Baltimore, Helena and Hibbing, these homegrown wines sparkled with money.

Three exceptions were enumerated in the Volstead Act, medical sales of alcohol, cider or home-brew wine consumed by farmers, and communion wine used in religious ceremonies.

If you want to sell bootleg liquor well, you must first ban legitimate merchants from engaging in the liquor business, and you also need to prevent the police and other law enforcement officials from interfering with their business, so a perfect combination was created.

There was a "French aristocrat" named de La Tour, a Catholic winemaking family in California, who consumed a large amount of grapes harvested in the United States during Prohibition.

He did not start out as a brewer, but a chemist who specialized in brewing tartar, which is very beneficial in cooking. When his daughter first entered the social circle, according to French tradition, he ordered it for her at the opera house.

An exclusive box, his wife is always noble and elegant, and the family is a beautiful scenery in the local social circle.

His way of making money is not like other bootleggers who need to gather together to sign a contract to divide their respective territories and interests. He will provide the best wine to some celebrities, but they are just embellishments on his client list.

The real "big orders" are priests from various dioceses.

Even if the Holy Communion requires that each person take a sip of wine, the order that Latour took over alone would have been 900,000 gallons. He even built a special railway to transport the wine.

Winston Churchill also met him. At that time, he was still a child traveling with his father. Latour's hospitality made the guests feel that they lacked nothing, even if they left his home, as long as they did not leave the United States.

He can get whatever he wants.

He later also provided wine to rabbis. There was a rabbi of a small church who consumed 5,000 gallons of wine in nine months. The reason for this rabbi's success was that he had a long congregation list, which was full of dead people's names.

After coming up with this idea, California was looking for abandoned census ledgers everywhere.

Later, there were Communion champagne, Communion mint liqueur, and Communion brandy, but even so, a federal judge still felt that these wines were legal. "The nature of Communion wine depends on its use, not its ingredients."

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"How was it?" Pomona asked Minerva.

"It looks like I was bitten by something. How about applying some ointment?" Minerva said.

"I don't even know what it is." Pomona put on her clothes.

"Let Poppy show you, she is the nurse." Minerva said.

Pomona thought so too, so he opened the curtain and walked out of the dressing area.

Although there were many people in the lounge, she still caught sight of Snape, who was talking to Kettleburn.

As soon as she saw him, she remembered the dream she had not sure whether it was true or false. In the dream, she was lying on a recliner, surrounded by white gauze curtains.

The floor-to-ceiling windows were open, and the wind blew in, causing the gauze curtains and his cloak to dance in the wind.

"What are you looking at?" Minerva asked.

"I was thinking about the water problem," Pomona said angrily, ignoring the questions on Minerva's face and walked towards him.
Chapter completed!