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Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith. They were the most famous Prohibition Bureau agents in the country. And for good reason.

They used wild and crazy antics in enforcing Prohibition. Their activities were widely reported in the press. And a movie was later made about them. But they were fired. Discover why.

Overview

I. Background

II. Izzy in Action

III. Great Success

IV. Public Fascination

V. Izzy and Moe Fired

VI. Their Deaths

VII. National Prohibition

VIII.Resources

I. Background: Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith

Isidor Einstein (“Izzy” Einstein) was born in Austria some time between 1882 and 1888. Around 1901 he moved to the U.S. Shortly thereafter he and his wife had at least seven children. The census of 1910 reports that he was a merchant in Pennsylvania. The census of 1920 showed that he was a mail sorter in New York City.

Moe W. Smith was born about 1887 in New York City. The 1920 census reports that he was a U.S. marshall there. The ten years later the census listed him as an insurance agent, married, and having a daughter.

National Prohibiti

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Isadore Einstein, known as “Izzy” to his friends, was no one’s idea of a G-man. Short, fat with numerous chins and thinning hair, he was so rotund that the great crime writer, Herbert Asbury, described his belly as moving “majestically ahead like the breast of an overfed pouter pigeon.” With his thick round spectacles perched on his nose, Izzy had all the looks of your below-average Joe. But it was precisely this unprepossessing appearance that would make him, and his similarly schlubby friend, Moe Smith, the greatest federal agents of their age.

That age was Prohibition. It’s a period that nearly 100 years on still seems like a fantastical blip in America’s history. From 1919 to 1933, the Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution declared it illegal to produce, transport or sell alcohol, the result of years of lobbying by the Anti-Saloon League and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It had been thought the decree would instill a more peaceable character in the nation. However, those 14 years saw the United States at its loudest, most violent and perversely, mos

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During the first five years of Prohibition in New York, there was one name that struck fear in the hearts of every bootlegger- Isadore “Izzy” Einstein. A man who a 1922 edition of The Literary Digest noted was the “master hooch-hound, alongside whom all the rest of the pack are but pups.” This hooch-hound was a Prohibition agent with a 95% conviction rate and over 4000 arrests, a record made all the more impressive when you realise Einstein was a 5 feet 5 inch tall 225 pound Austro-Hungarian immigrant with no previous background in law enforcement.

Born in 1880 somewhere in Austria before immigrating to the states in 1902 seeking a better life, Izzy worked as a clerk in the postal office to support his wife, five children and ageing father. When Prohibition came into effect in January of 1920, the then 40 years old Izzy was amongst the first to apply for a job at the Southern New York Federal Prohibition Bureau. As he said, it seemed “a good chance for a fellow with ambition”. The pay was $40 per week (about $536 per week today).

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