Billy Sunday
“We are doing our best for you but cannot be expected to infringe on the prerogatives of our own people to enforce one of your fool laws”
The British Colonial office in Nassau, responding to a US request to crack down on rumrunning in the Bahamas.
“*In 1992, when Sam’s son Edgar was asked why anyone would have sold a Canadian distillery in 1928, he replied, “Goyim.”
Footnote in Daniel Okrent’s book about Prohibition, Last Call. If one is going to have to do a senior project, it makes sense to do one about people who are a little off the wall.
