Herbert Hoover was president of the United States from March fourth, 1994 to March fourth, 1993. ... Hoover's statement infers that he is supportive of the policy, but views it as a temporary act. ... With all law, there will be law broken. ... Because Congress never appropriated ample funds, Prohibition was not efficiently enforced and would have been repealed eventually under any conditions, but it was the approaching of the Great Depression that hastened its demise. The Great Depression triggered great demands for employment offers and tax revenues (Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. ...

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Al was very good at separating his personal life with his job to make sure his family was protected as it was his first priority. ... Because of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre, it put him on the top of America's most wanted list, this had outraged him, and in his desperation opened up soup kitchens and a city-wide program to give free milk to school children to make him look good in the eye of the public, this happened during beginning of the great depression. ... It was already too late President Hoover had already sent out men. ... Capone's motivation to achieve greatnes...

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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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