1919 PROHIBITION - American speaker W Johnson' at Essex hall, London UK . He was ridiculed and lost an eye whilst being forcibly paraded through the streets of London on a stretcher by medical students. William Eugene "Pussyfoot" Johnson ( 1862 -1945) was an American Prohibition advocate and law enforcement officer who travelled to Britain with the hope of introducing prohibition there. In America he frequented US 'speak easy' establishments under cover and reported them to the authorities. He was known in Oklahoma as “the gent with the panther tread” due to his softly-softly approach.

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