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Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland
JD ChandlerTheresa Griffin Kennedy
其他書名
Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2016-02-01
主題History / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)True Crime / Murder / GeneralPhotography / Subjects & Themes / RegionalTravel / Pictorials
ISBN16258570559781625857057
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lGxBCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city. Maligned in the press, Schrader executed a bitter campaign to recall the mayor. In 1933, a hired gunman murdered special investigator to the governor Frank Aiken a day before he would have filed a report on corruption in the city government. Authors JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy unearth the salacious details of Baker's crooked administration in a revelatory account of prohibition in the Rose City.