Organized Crime
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...efforts of federal officials to enforce the unpopular Volstead Act (see Volstead, Andrew Joseph ) of 1920 generated the growth...leaders turned to new avenues of profitable crime, such as labor racketeering, gambling, and narcotics traffic. The Syndicate The era...