A wild game of leapfrog – involving a suspected rum-running plane – took place in the air and on the ground in Spokane. Federal Prohibition agents suspected that the mysterious rum-running plane was ...

WHEN 6,500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON ANTIGUA April 30 to May 6 for Sailing Week, the Caribbean’s biggest regatta, some will go sailing. More will drink rum. Lots of rum. No longer scorned by connoisseurs, the ...

O.J. McCullough, in jail as part of the rum-running caravan foiled in Okanogan County, denied paying the sheriff or anyone else “protection money” for safe passage. This seemed to contradict reports ...

Rum is one of the world's most intriguing spirits, not only for its wide range of flavors but for exotic rum-running tales of pirates and smugglers on the high seas. Even through civil wars and ...

Sep. 15—MANCHESTER — It was about 2 a.m., Dec. 29, 1929, in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, when the Black Duck, a rum-running vessel, attempted to smuggle its load into port for the upcoming New Year's ...

Though Prohibition outlawed the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol during the 1920s and early 1930s, it couldn’t put a stop to Americans’ desire to imbibe. To satisfy that thirst—and turn a ...