SPEAKEASY STATISTICS
WASHINGTON, 12th February
Mr. Walter Liggett, an investigator' for a magazine syndicate, giving evidence before the Congressional inquiryinto Prohibition, said that there were 700 "speakeasies" (sly grog : shops) running day and night in Washington, with not less than 7000 bootleggers. Boston, he estimated, contained 4000 "speakeasies," which employed 15,000 persons.
A police census showed 20,000 places selling liquor in Detroit, which is, it is alleged, in the grip of •'""gangsters, racketeers, and grafting policemen.' 1
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 9
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