U.S. LIQUOR TROUBLES
Quotas Near Exhaustion REVENUE VIOLATIONS (Received 22, 1.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. The Government disclosed that the rush of foreign liquors into the United States had brought most of the import quotas near exhaustion, and at the same- time moved to combat domestically what the Attorney-General, Mr Cummings, described as “the rather wholesale plan to violate the internal revenue law’s on liquor.”
He said that the entire force of 1170 prohibition agents would be employed to prevent bootlegging and other illegal liquor operations; that illicit stills were still in operation and that "depredations were going on.” The position as regards foreign liquor quotas indicates that the Portuguese and French were exhausted and that an impasse has been reached in the negotiations with the French who, having accepted increased quotas of American fruits and pork products, at the same time Increased the duties on these items.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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148U.S. LIQUOR TROUBLES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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