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Title Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland : Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign / J. D. Chandler.
Author Chandler, J. D., author.
Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Arcadia Publishing Inc., [2016]
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Summary The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city. Maligned in the press, Schrader executed a bitter campaign to recall the mayor. In 1933, a hired gunman murdered special investigator to the governor Frank Aiken a day before he would have filed a report on corruption in the city government. Authors JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy unearth the salacious details of Baker's crooked administration in a revelatory account of prohibition in the Rose City.
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Subject Baker, George Luis, 1868-1941.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
Alcoholic beverage law violations -- Oregon -- Portland -- History -- 20th century.
Prohibition -- Oregon -- Portland -- History.
Scandals -- Oregon -- Portland -- History -- 20th century.
Crime -- Oregon -- Portland -- History -- 20th century.
Political corruption -- Oregon -- Portland -- History -- 20th century.
Mayors -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography.
Portland (Or.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Portland (Or.) -- Biography.
Portland (Or.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author Kennedy, Theresa Griffin, author.
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Related To Print version: Chandler, J. D. Murder & scandal in prohibition Portland. Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2016. 9781467119535 (pbk.) (DLC)2015956821
ISBN 9781625857057 (epub)
Standard No. 9781625857057
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