"Letter Identifying Two Establishments in New Jersey Breaking the Prohibition Law"
This letter, which O.A. Calandria wrote to U.S. Assistant Attorney General Mabel Willebrant, is dated May 2, 1929, and identifies two businesses in New Jersey who are manufacturing and selling liquor – breaking the law. It highlights the string of citizens and groups between 1918 and 1933 that wrote to the government to offer suggestions or express their views on Prohibition and its enforcement, which shows that some people were actually in support of such laws unlike the common belief that everyone hated it and defied the government – either breaking the law themselves or abetting those who did. This document shows, again, the importance of historical accuracies because, like most, I assumed that everyone hated Prohibition except those religiously invested in its downfall.
