Herbert Hoover who would eventually become president in 1929 was quoted saying "I don't think its possible for a person to get drunk on 2.75% alcohol." ... With all of these great new inexpensive beasts of cars on the market the things that separated average moonshiners and great moonshiners was all about the modifications you could put on the cars. ... With all of these great upgrades being put on these cars you would need very special and very skilled drivers to be able to tame these wild beasts. ... " With all of these great drivers Bill France, who was another moonshine runn...

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(Wills, 1997) Scots run was a scattering of mine camps in West Virginia, overrun with extreme poverty and unfit living conditions during the years of the Great Depression. ... ER raised money for the state to match funds with the Sheppard-Towner Act that established maternity and pediatric clinics. ... At the demonstration, ER was arrested for ignoring a police order to move on and charged with disorderly conduct. ... It only enables women to compete with men for jobs and does not really improve women's capability to change society." ... Eleanor also made a phenomenal influence in ci...

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For years, people had toyed with the idea of a "dry county"; yet, until World War I, no one had ever seriously considered it. ... People all over the nation were excepting prohibition with all too great an ease. ... Society was beginning to except breaking the law on an everyday basis with the rationalization that it was only alcohol. ... Federal courts were suddenly jammed packed with prohibition cases, and most courts found themselves at the breaking point (Thornton 72). ... America's own law makers and legislators, who had been the cause of the prohibition law, were now becoming corrup...

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When he was a preacher, he would lay with girls after his sermons, and then worry himself "till [he] couldn't get no sleep." ... They present a less detailed "examination" of the great migration, a drift away from the sharp naturalistic representation of life through the family. ... (Steinbeck, 22) How the turtle struggled to cross the road represents the troubles and hardships that the farmer's and their families would endure as the coming of the great migration approached. ... This she is for as the story progresses, she unveils her serene sense of leadership and becomes the hea...

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