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Information Regarding The Maine State Prison, Thomaston, Maine 1824-1953, Allan L. Robbins

Maine Bicentennial

Prior to the start of World War II, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI declared dead the criminal networks established by violent career gangsters during the Prohibition Era. By 1950, America’s attention was focused on the Cold War, Communism, and suspected Soviet subversion plots.

As the FBI continually denied the existence of organized crime, a new American mafia was establishing legitimate businesses as covers for racketeering, drug trafficking, and loansharking. Bribes to local police and politicians bought protection from investigation.

In 1949 the American Municipal Association pushed for the U.S. Congress to investigate. Despite Hoover’s continued denials, the resulting Kefauver Committee proceedings …

Records Of The State Of Maine Department Of Sea And Shore Fisheries, Maine Seafood Directory Survey, 1953, Maine Department Of Sea And Shore Fisheries

History of Maine Fisheries

Survey sent by the Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries to seafood suppliers of Maine seafood products, primarily within but also outside of the state of Maine, in order to determine the need for publication of an annual directory for the Maine seafood industry. Responses included the name and address of the company or individual to whom the survey was sent, types of seafood produced or distributed, and whether or not the end product was canned, frozen, fresh or live, 1953.