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Corruption and Political Influence made football of Enforcement, Declares Woodcock, Dry Forces' Chief

Agents cautioned on dry searches. Respect for Constitutional rights of citizens, especially in homes, stressed in orders. Instructed to tell truth.

Article recounts release of George Dorsey's book which claims that Prohibition has been a failure and caused more damage to society than any good.

This is the new insignia plate the Bureau of Prohibition has adopted for use by prohibition agents in stopping suspected automobiles. In the photograph, from left to right, are; Prohibition Administrator Ames Woodcock, H.M. Lucious, secretary of the…

And now a beer meter. Washington, D.C., May 1. To aid Uncle Same in collecting the tax on the millions of barrels of beer brewed in this country every year, the National Bureau of Standards has designed a master beer meter for use of the alcohol unit…

Woman seated at a soda fountain table is pouring alcohol into a cup from a cane, during Prohibition; with a large Coca-Cola advertisement on the wall

Dr. A. B. Adams, head of the division of technology of the Internal Revenue.

Photograph of Prohibition Chief Sams walking to Treasury Department Building

Agents photographed evidence of what techniques bootleggers were using escape capture.

Fashioned by rumrunners, these shoe modifications would disguise footprints in order to confuse Prohibition agents and local authorizes.