Bureau of Prohibition agents were often referred to as dry agents (though corruption among this crew ran rampant). As an adjective, it describes a place where alcohol is not served. Hooch refers ...

The effects of Prohibition on law enforcement were also negative. The sums of money being exchanged during the dry era proved a corrupting influence in both the federal Bureau of Prohibition and ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...