Booze, Prohibition and the Man in the Green Hat: An Original October Surprise – Roll Call

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Booze, Prohibition and the Man in the Green Hat: An Original October Surprise

By Jason Dick

Posted October 22, 2018 at 4:56pm

By Jason Dick and D.A. Banks

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The confessions of The Man in the Green Hat — who supplied booze to the House and Senate for a decade during Prohibition — made front-page news just weeks before the 1930 midterm elections. And the Democrats ended up making huge gains in the House that November. Deputy editor Jason Dick shares the remarkable story of George Cassiday, bootlegger to Congress and one of the original October surprises. (Featuring illustrations from )

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