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Author : J. D. Chandler
Release : 2016-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 274/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland by : J. D. Chandler
Download or read book Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland written by J. D. Chandler. This book was released on 2016-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JD Chandler
Release : 2016-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland by : JD Chandler
Download or read book Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland written by JD Chandler. This book was released on 2016-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Joe Streckert
Release : 2020-02-24
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 039/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Storied & Scandalous Portland, Oregon by : Joe Streckert
Download or read book Storied & Scandalous Portland, Oregon written by Joe Streckert. This book was released on 2020-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When vice and scandal are all fun and games. Portland, Oregon began as a town of itinerant young men who had no shortage of diversions at the end of the workday. This city grew up with lots of revelry and little regulation. After the last tree fell in logging season and after the workday ended on the docks, those young men broke out the cards. Saloon culture quickly took hold in Portland, offering alcohol, sex, gambling, and other diversions. This book traces the storied and scandalous history of Portland, from the underground and elite saloons and gambling rings to the vice, scandal, and fun they brought. Readers will meet the impresarios, gangsters, and racketeers who colored Portland’s history.
Author : Theresa Griffin Kennedy
Release : 2021-10-25
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Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Talionic Night in Portland by : Theresa Griffin Kennedy
Download or read book Talionic Night in Portland written by Theresa Griffin Kennedy. This book was released on 2021-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story, is a dark and unusual story that will surprise readers. Full of ribald humor, Talionic Night in Portland is a sexually riveting and sometimes comic account of how some people come to grips with and navigate long held repressed rage at past childhood trauma, finally coming to terms wit
Author : Madison, James H.
Release : 2014-10
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 633/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hoosiers and the American Story by : Madison, James H.
Download or read book Hoosiers and the American Story written by Madison, James H.. This book was released on 2014-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
