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Whisky Ring was the name applied to an American criminal association of revenue officers and distillers, formed in St Louis in 1872 to defraud the Government of the internal revenue tax on distilled liquors. By 1874 it had spread into national proportions. Distillers were often forced to enter the ring or expect ruin in their business. There were branches of the ring at Chicago, Milwaukee, Peoria, Cincinnati and New Orleans, and an agent at Washington to corrupt the Treasury agents. In 1874 about $1,200,000 of taxes were unpaid. In 1875, at the suggestion of Mr. George Fishback, editor of the St Louis Democrat the Secretary of the Treasury appointed Mr. Myron Colony, of the Cotton Exchange, to make a secret investigation of the frauds. Through his efforts indictments were brought against 238 persons, and the Government was shown to have been defrauded of $1,650,000 in ten months. Among those concerned was General Babcock, President Grant's private secretary, and many other Government officials.
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Edward Jean Steichen was an American photographer. He was born in 1879 at Luxembourg and died in 1973. Taken to the USA as a child he grew up in Michigan and studied art at Milwaukee from 1894 to 1898 before working as a painter and photographer in Europe until 1914. He specialised in nude photography, and was a pioneer in obtaining recognition for photography as an art form.
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Henry Louis Aaron (Hank Aaron) is an American baseball player. He was born in 1934 at Mobile, Alabama. An outstanding batsman, during his twenty-three season career with the Milwaukee, later Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers he made 755 home runs, breaking Babe Ruth's long standing record of 714 home runs.
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Woody Herman (real name Woodrow Charles Herman) was an American jazz musician. He was born in 1913 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and died in 1987. He was popular during the 1930s and 1940s for his 'swing' style, though he started his career as a child prodigy, dancing in vaudeville at the age of six, before taking up the saxophone and clarinet.
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Gene Wilder is an American actor, writer, film director and producer. He was born in 1933 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Pat O'Brien was an american actor. He was born in 1899 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and died in 1983.
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Spencer Tracy was an American actor. He was born in 1900 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and died in 1967.
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Candice Michelle (real name Candice Michelle Beckman) is an American actress. She was born in 1978 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is known primarily for her role in the American wrestling entertainment shows.
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Deidre Hall is an American actress. She was born in 1947 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is perhaps best known for playing the role of 'Barbara Anderson' in the 1970s television soap-opera 'The Young And The Restless'.
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Heather Graham is an American actress. She was born in 1970 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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