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Chief Prohibition Inspector: Major Buzzkill

Tom Aug 28, 2012 Faces & Places of Yesterday Leave a comment

Meet Major Walton Atwater Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector for Washington, D.C. This is not a guy you want to cross. Don’t let him catch you with some hooch.

September 5, 1925. Washington, D.C. "W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Shorpy) — September 5, 1925. Washington, D.C. “W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Shorpy)

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