Chapter 321 – Early Summer, 1933

On May 7, alcohol was legalized once again in America for the first time in fourteen years.

American newspapers were already running gossip articles saying things like this would probably greatly weaken Al Capone’s influence. More serious newspapers, meanwhile, were filled with articles saying that although the new administration had begun moving, the American economy was still deep in the depths of collapse.

Under those circumstances, my purchases had apparently been received with overwhelming gratitude from the people I bought from, but had almost no effect whatsoever on the gigantic American economy as a whole. Meanwhile, stock prices were still climbing, fueled largely by optimism and expectations.

And the revision of what was, in a sense, a fairly unimportant law marked the point where the administration truly began to move in earnest.

Because of the attempted assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and