Remembering a costly lesson learned by the U.S. in the years 1919-33, New York's straight-grained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week wrote his Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "Owing to the increased taxes on liquor there might be created a temptation to bootleg. Therefore I wish you would make every effort to nip any such tendency immediately."
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