Authors: Eric Burns
1920 (50 page)
41:Â Â Â “Sometimes bartenders baptized,” ibid.,
p. 106
.
42:Â Â Â “organized mother love,”
WCTU
.
42:Â Â Â “Tremble, King Alcohol,” and “Young Man,”
WCTU
.
43:Â Â Â “locomotive in trousers,” quoted in Asinof,
p. 227
.
44:Â Â Â “One day a laborer,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 154
.
45:Â Â Â “informed that there are,” quoted in Behr,
p. 69
.
45:Â Â Â “pleaded, they wheedled,” Mordden,
p. 142
.
45:Â Â Â “actually purchased,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 159
.
46:Â Â Â “I do it the way,” Mordden,
p. 142
.
46:Â Â Â “controlled six Congresses,” quoted in Steuart,
p. 11
.
46:Â Â Â “demanding that a worldwide prohibition,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 158
.
48:Â Â Â “[t]he air became thick,” ibid.,
pp. 190
â1.
49:Â Â Â “He blended two parts,” Perrett,
p. 176
.
50:Â Â Â “Last Sunday I manufactured,” quoted in Mordden,
p. 147
.
50:Â Â Â “Mother's in the kitchen,” Kobler,
p. 238
.
51:Â Â Â “In southern Florida,” Perrett,
p. 175
.
51:Â Â Â “To get started,” adapted and condensed from Burns,
Spirits
,
pp. 195
â6.
52:Â Â Â “Appointments varied, of course,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 199
.
53:Â Â Â “The headwaiters,” Miller, Donald L.,
p. 124
.
53:Â Â Â “Door fitters were in especial demand,” Lee,
pp. 55
â6.
54:Â Â Â “never saw corpses,” quoted in Furnas,
Great Times
, p. 353.
54:Â Â Â “speak softly shop,” quoted in Cashman,
p. 43
.
54:Â Â Â “Hush! Don't 'ee sing so loud,” Hardy,
p. 26
.
54:Â Â Â “Robert Benchley,” Mordden,
p. 134
.
54:Â Â Â “[f]ederal officials believed,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 197
.
55:Â Â Â “People made jokes,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 199
.
55:Â Â Â
“it took money,”
This Fabulous Century
,
p. 160
.
55:Â Â Â “New York speakeasy owners,” Cashman,
p. 44
.
56:Â Â Â “[O]rganized crime afflicted,” Fox,
p. 11
.
56:Â Â Â “Nothing like it,” Dash,
p. 268
.
57:Â Â Â “a tightening of the throat,” Bryson,
p. 160
.
59:Â Â Â “There is but one way,” quoted in Parrish,
pp. 138
â9.
59:Â Â Â “a reward for what women,” Cantor,
p. 151
.
60:Â Â Â “a large property owner,” Gurko,
pp. 23
â4.
60:Â Â Â “The governor, in response,” Tindall, Volume I,
pp. 92
â3.
60:Â Â Â “In some colonies,” Gurko,
p. 24
.
61:Â Â Â “When, in the course of human events,” and following quotes from the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,
DSR
, unpaginated.
63:Â Â Â “It was argued,” Gurko,
p. 101
.
65:Â Â Â “The precedent was so unusual,” ibid.,
p. 72
.
66:Â Â Â “protested her disenfranchisement,” ibid.
66:Â Â Â “With my own teeth,” quoted in Gordon and Radway,
pp. 157
â8.
66:Â Â Â “Ever the innovator,” Weatherford,
p. 165
.
66:Â Â Â “[T]all and slender,” ibid.,
p. 113
.
67:Â Â Â “to take the responsibility,” ibid.,
p. 250
.
67:Â Â Â “had the incredible experience,” ibid.,
p. 251
.
67:Â Â Â “The women who had voted,” ibid.,
p. 254
.
67:Â Â Â “Knowing that she would be tried,” Seldes,
p. 280
.
68:Â Â Â “white and frail,” ibid.,
p. 179
.
68:Â Â Â “To think I have had,” quoted in www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905.
68:Â Â Â “Both the organized women's movement,” Cooper, Jr.,
p. 63
.
70:Â Â Â “We were
all
poor,” and “churchpeople, thieves,” and “a woman hollered,” quoted in Bergreen,
p. 15
.
70:Â Â Â “Chastized as the devil's music,” Gioia,
p. 31
.
70:Â Â Â “Does Jazz Put the Sin,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 69
.
70:Â Â Â “Those Baptist rhythms,” Gioia,
p. 31
.
70:Â Â Â “[Buddy] Bolden,” ibid.,
p. 31
.
71:Â Â Â “the mournful energy,” Moore,
p. 45
.
71:Â Â Â “entered just a fraction,” Bergreen,
p. 205
.
72:Â Â Â “transformed whatever piece,” ibid.
72:Â Â Â “put a new piece together,” quoted in Bergreen,
p. 128
.
73:Â Â Â
“He really did perform,” Teachout,
p. 15
.
74:Â Â Â “The black population in Northern cities,” Green,
p. 98
.
75:Â Â Â “The French allied forces,” Horton,
p. 161
.
75:Â Â Â “About 2
A.M.
,” www.northcarolinaroom.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/the-battle-of-henry-johnson.
76:Â Â Â “I am of the opinion,”
SEP
, August 24, 1918.
77:Â Â Â “In Chicago,” Weinberg,
p. 213
.
78:Â Â Â “learned about the colonization,” Archer,
p. 85
.
78:Â Â Â “But when Marcus Garvey,” Grant,
p. 184
.
79:Â Â Â “I am President-General,” quoted in ibid.,
pp. 77
â8.
79:Â Â Â “eventually claimed a circulation,” Archer,
p. 94
80:Â Â Â “did what no black person,” Grant,
p. 320
.
80:Â Â Â “Have this day,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 333
.
80:Â Â Â “Garvey intends to reorganise,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 334
.
81:Â Â Â “to encourage black,” www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garvey_marcus.shtml.
81:Â Â Â “Today I made myself,” quoted in www.afropoets.net/marcusgarvey2.html.
82:Â Â Â “Garvey is a West Indian Negro,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 98
.
83:Â Â Â “Mr. Garvey immediately,” Grant, pp. 371â2.
84:Â Â Â “Garvey's and the Black Star Line's,” Grant, pp. 373â4.
84:Â Â Â “spectacular antics,” quoted in Smith, Page,
pp. 213
â14.
85:Â Â Â “learning to accept insult,” quoted in
NAACP
,
p. 2
.
85:Â Â Â “was not the mere gathering,” ibid.
86:Â Â Â “is merely the logical result,”
Current Biography, 1944
, p. 742.
86:Â Â Â “Father of Black History,” quoted in Goggin,
p. 181
.
87:Â Â Â “a key to our freedom,” quoted in ibid., Goggin,
p. 209
.
87:Â Â Â “Dr. Woodson often said,”
NAACP
,
p. 2
.
91:Â Â Â “with the regularity,” Bain,
p. 288
.
92:Â Â Â “Between a third and two-fifths,” Kyvig,
Daily Life
,
p. 12
.
93:Â Â Â “As the historian Paul Johnson,” quoted in Roberts,
p. 92
.
93:Â Â Â “the bitch-goddess SUCCESS,” quoted in www.goodreads.com/quotes168833-the-moral-flabbiness-born-of-the-worship-of-the-bitch-goddess-SUCCESS.
94:Â Â Â “association of poverty,” quoted in Drabelle,
p. 187
.
95:Â Â Â “There is no right,” quoted in Abels,
p. 19
.
97:Â Â Â “We work in
his
mine,” quoted in Perrett,
p. 46
.
97:Â Â Â “forced striking miners,” Savage,
p. 12
.
98:Â Â Â “the Hatfields had tied,” Savage,
p. 10
98:Â Â Â
“had been only a boy,” ibid.,
p. 11
.
98:Â Â Â “rather handsome young man,” ibid.,
p. 12
.
99:Â Â Â Â “The report circulated,” ibid.,
p. 21
.
100: “cutting telephone and telegraph wires,” ibid. 47.
101: “The demand for coal,” ibid.,
p. 48
.
102: “between the men,” quoted in McFarland, p. 413.
103: “In 1920,” photo sent to author by Matewan city officials.
104: “a decidedly working-class neighborhood,” Zuckoff,
p. 19
.
105: “that relatives weary of paying,” Dunn,
p. 9
.
105: “dreamed aloud about,” Zuckoff,
p. 20
.
106: “I ship stuff,” and “a crate o' tomatoes,” quoted Dunn,
p. 9
.
107: “with his growing skills,” ibid.,
p. 9
.
108: “I have no figures,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 32
.
108: “Ponzi was given a job,” Zuckoff,
p. 47
.
109: “thin, graying, tiny,” ibid.,
p. 31
.
109: “He sold groceries,” Dunn,
p. 10
.
111: “That night, doctors removed,”
pp. 53
â4.
112: “Always have a goal,” quoted in ibid.,
pp. 30
â31.
112: “In April 1906,” Zuckoff,
p. 93
.
112: “could be purchased,” www.images.businessweek.com/ss/09/0311_madoff/3.htm.
112: “more mundane and obscure,” Zuckoff,
p. 93
.
113: “The coupon had cost,” ibid.,
p. 95
.
114: “Sixty-six coupons,” ibid.,
pp. 95
â6.
114: “A confident tone of voice,” Dunn,
p. 2
.
116: “salesmanship and psychology,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 112
.
118: “For every $10,” Parrish,
p. 221
.
119: “Securities Exchange Company,” quoted in Zuckoff,
p. 133
.
120: “DOUBLES THE MONEY,”
BP
, July 24, 1920.
121: “Ponzi literally couldn't,” Bryson,
pp. 337
â8.
126: “a Hogarthian degradation,” quoted in Miller, Donald L.,
p. 122
.
127: The statistics on crime during Prohibition are provided by www.albany.edu/~wm731882/organized_crime1_final.html.
127: “Most often, the cutting,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 218
.
128: “It did not quarrel with,” ibid.,
p. 218
.
128: “The person who drinks,” quoted in Barr,
p. 241
.
128:
“seemed a notice,” Holbrook,
p. 105
.
129: “They should have permitted,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 173
.
129: “Bootleggers claimed,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 219
.
129: “a no-frills mixture,” ibid.,
p. 220
.
130: “a distillation of alcohol,” ibid.,
p. 220
.
130: “She just liked to drink,” ibid.,
p. 220
.
130: “people wet their whistles,” ibid.,
p. 220
.”
130: “The experienced drinker,” Morris,
p. 36
.
130: “Farm hands in the Midwest,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 221
.
131: “I call it legalized murder,” quoted in Mordden,
p. 135
.
131: “The victim of âjake paralysis,'” Shepherd,
CW
, July 26, 1930.
132: “so vicious a poison,” Burns,
Spirits
, 223.
132: “Recipes were invented,” Birmingham,
pp. 241
â2.
133: “In 1925,” ibid.,
p. 223
.
133: “In 1927,” Mordden,
p. 135
.
134: “During the period,” Kyvig,
Repealing
,
p. 24
.
134: “reviewed the literature,” Lender and Martin,
p. 139
.
135: Table of figures, and “Obviously, drinking decline,” Abels,
p. 87
.
135: “In 1943,” Lender and Martin,
p. 138
.
135: “seemed more clear-headed,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 280
.
137: “There is less drinking,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 282
.
138: “if any of the Republican members,” quoted in Weatherford,
p. 241
.
139: “confidence that the [Ohio] legislature,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 241
.
139: “Many women also went,” ibid.,
p. 241
.
139: “devotion to states' rights,” ibid.,
p. 242
.
139: “that they filed suits,” ibid.,
p. 240
.
140: “conscience struck,” Weatherford,
p. 243
.
140: “Vote for suffrage,” quoted in Flexner and Fitzpatrick.
141: “Women screamed frantically,”
NYT
, August 19, 1920.
141: “a point of personal privilege,” and, “I changed my vote,” quoted in Weatherford,
p. 243
.
141: “Unable, despite threats and bribery,” Flexner,
pp. 323
â4.
142: “had no experience,” Weatherford,
p. 196
.
143: “Carrie Chapman Catt summed it up,” ibid.,
p. 244
.
143: “Never in the history of politics,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 242
.
145: “fine, clean and honest,” Gray,
p. 23
.
145: “Then she faced her worst test,” Douglas, Emily Taft,
p. 9
.